Subject	Predicate	Object
03XoVgS4	a	Resource
		Answer
		Written answer
	answer has question	uH2s6ukB
	answer has answering person	Therese Coffey
	answer text	<p>Surveys for black grouse are generally carried out at country level, but vary in frequency and sampling methods. It is therefore not possible to provide estimates at the UK level for the last five years.</p><p> </p><p>The last comprehensive survey of the black grouse population was undertaken in 2005, which estimated there were approximately 5100 breeding pairs in Great Britain.</p><p> </p><p>In 2016 a formal estimate of the black grouse population in Great Britain was produced by several UK conservation bodies drawing on the data produced by country level surveys and using the International Union for Conservation of Nature methodology. The 2016 population of black grouse was estimated to be 5775 males (or breeding pairs).</p>
	answer given date	2017-11-17
	answer is replaced by answer	RKRHKvPa
	answer has answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
	written answer has answering body	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs	answering body has written answer	03XoVgS4
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs	answering body has answer	03XoVgS4
RKRHKvPa	answer replaces answer	03XoVgS4
uH2s6ukB	question has answer	03XoVgS4
Therese Coffey	answering person has answer	03XoVgS4