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Shot gamebirds and geese dumped by side of road in Nottinghamshire.This is a common & widespread illegal practice that's...
17/02/2025

Shot gamebirds and geese dumped by side of road in Nottinghamshire.

This is a common & widespread illegal practice that's been going on for years right across the UK...

Here we go again. The remains of shot gamebirds and geese have been found dumped at the side of the road, this time in Nottinghamshire in early February 2025. Many thanks to Helena M who has given …

BBC rejects Scottish Gamekeepers Association's complaint about programme that linked raptor persecution to land managed ...
17/02/2025

BBC rejects Scottish Gamekeepers Association's complaint about programme that linked raptor persecution to land managed for gamebird shooting.

The SGA claimed the programme caused "unfair reputation [sic] damage". Nope, reputational damage is being caused by those criminal gamekeepers in the industry who won't stop killing birds of prey!

Last November the BBC aired an episode of Highland Cops (Series 2, Episode 4) that featured a Police Scotland Wildlife Crime Officer, PC Dan Sutherland, investigating the suspicious disappearance o…

Petition to ban possession of dangerous, raptor-killing pesticides in Northern Ireland approached deadline - please sign...
13/02/2025

Petition to ban possession of dangerous, raptor-killing pesticides in Northern Ireland approached deadline - please sign!

50,000 signatures will make an impression on the decision-making politicians (currently 46,206 sigs).

Your help is needed to ensure a petition, calling for a ban on the possession of dangerous, raptor-killing pesticides in Northern Ireland, passes the target of 50,000 signatures before next week. T…

Two (rare!) job opportunities with the award-winning charity Birds of Poole Harbour (Dorset). If you want to be part of ...
12/02/2025

Two (rare!) job opportunities with the award-winning charity Birds of Poole Harbour (Dorset).

If you want to be part of a world-class conservation project, & you like ospreys and white-tailed eagles, these are amazing opportunities to get involved. The team are a lovely bunch, too!

The award-winning charity Birds of Poole Harbour (BOPH) is advertising two rare job opportunities. The first one is for the role of maternity cover for the BOPH Manager, starting in spring 2025. Sa…

Brilliant spoof video from Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (WWT), ft Megan McCubbin, highlighting the dangers of toxic lead am...
11/02/2025

Brilliant spoof video from Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (WWT), ft Megan McCubbin, highlighting the dangers of toxic lead ammunition to wildlife, human health & the environment.



In the build up to a forthcoming decision by the DEFRA Secretary of State (and his counterparts in the devolved governments) whether to accept the HSE’s recommendations to ban the use of toxi…

Parliamentary questions lodged on grouse moor licensing shambles in Scotland.Well done, Colin Smyth MSP (Scottish Labour...
10/02/2025

Parliamentary questions lodged on grouse moor licensing shambles in Scotland.

Well done, Colin Smyth MSP (Scottish Labour).

This is far from over!

Regular blog readers will know that NatureScot made a sudden and controversial decision last autumn to change its approach and amend the brand new grouse moor licences that had been issued to sport…

HUGE congratulations to the charity Birds of Poole Harbour for winning GOLD in the Dorset Tourism Awards for their brill...
09/02/2025

HUGE congratulations to the charity Birds of Poole Harbour for winning GOLD in the Dorset Tourism Awards for their brilliant Osprey Boat Cruises 👏🥇🦅

If you haven't visited yet, you're missing out on one of the best wildlife experiences in the country, let alone in Dorset!

HUGE congratulations to the fantastic team behind the charity Birds of Poole Harbour whose Osprey Cruises have won GOLD in the 2024/25 Dorset Tourism Awards (Experience of the Year category)! The B…

New scientific paper led by Cambridge University shows toxic lead ammunition still used to shoot red grouse in the UK - ...
06/02/2025

New scientific paper led by Cambridge University shows toxic lead ammunition still used to shoot red grouse in the UK - the shooting industry's so-called 5-yr 'voluntary transition' away from lead ammunition has spectacularly failed.



A new scientific paper has been published today that demonstrates the shooting industry’s so-called 5-year ‘voluntary transition’ away from the use of toxic lead ammunition has sp…

RSPB Geltsdale reserve to become 'Pennines Paradise' for nature.Ambitious and important plans for this special upland re...
06/02/2025

RSPB Geltsdale reserve to become 'Pennines Paradise' for nature.

Ambitious and important plans for this special upland reserve.

Press release from RSPB (3rd Feb 2025) RSPB Geltsdale to become a Pennines paradise for nature A bold new restoration project is set to transform RSPB Geltsdale, an upland reserve in Northeast Cumb…

133 hen harriers confirmed 'missing' or illegally killed in UK since 2018, most of them on or close to grouse moors.
30/01/2025

133 hen harriers confirmed 'missing' or illegally killed in UK since 2018, most of them on or close to grouse moors.

For anyone who still wants to pretend that the grouse shooting industry isn’t responsible for the systematic extermination of hen harriers on grouse moors across the UK, here’s the latest catalogue…

Three more satellite-tagged hen harriers have gone 'missing' and two more have been found dead, awaiting post mortem.Any...
29/01/2025

Three more satellite-tagged hen harriers have gone 'missing' and two more have been found dead, awaiting post mortem.

Anybody surprised? Nope...

Natural England has just published its latest update on the fates of the satellite-tracked hen harriers it has tagged and subsequently been tracking. This latest update (dated Dec 2024) shows that …

Shot pheasants dumped in Lincolnshire during heightened risk of Avian Influenza.The gamebird shooting industry sticking ...
28/01/2025

Shot pheasants dumped in Lincolnshire during heightened risk of Avian Influenza.

The gamebird shooting industry sticking up two fingers to the rest of society, again.

A blog reader has sent in this photograph of shot pheasants that had been dumped by a roadside in Lincolnshire. Regular blog readers will know that this is a common and widespread illegal practice …

National Avian Influenza Prevention Zones (AIPZ) declared across England & Scotland.But don't worry, the shooting of phe...
27/01/2025

National Avian Influenza Prevention Zones (AIPZ) declared across England & Scotland.

But don't worry, the shooting of pheasants & red-legged partridges can continue without restriction...what could possibly go wrong?!

Following an increase in the number of detections of highly pathogenic Avian Influenza (Bird Flu) in wild birds and other captive birds, the Deputy Chief Veterinary Officer from Scotland and Chief …

NatureScot capitulated on grouse moor licensing after legal threats by game shooting industry.
24/01/2025

NatureScot capitulated on grouse moor licensing after legal threats by game shooting industry.

Regular blog readers will know that I’ve been trying to uncover the reasoning and process behind NatureScot’s sudden decision last autumn to change its approach and amend the brand new …

Two dead birds of prey 'found in suspicious circumstances' - Gwent Police investigating.
22/01/2025

Two dead birds of prey 'found in suspicious circumstances' - Gwent Police investigating.

The following statement and photo was posted on social media on 19 January 2025: GWENT POLICE: Another busy weekend for the rural crime team that included responding to a report of 2 dead birds of …

NatureScot fails to make any compliance checks on use of new grouse moor licences.Quelle surprise!
21/01/2025

NatureScot fails to make any compliance checks on use of new grouse moor licences.

Quelle surprise!

As many of you will be aware, the 2024 grouse shooting season in Scotland (12 Aug – 10 Dec 2024) saw the use of grouse moor licences for the first time ever, introduced by the Wildlife Manage…

Gamekeeper pleads guilty to snaring fox - press release from Scottish SPCA.More details from the case reported earlier t...
20/01/2025

Gamekeeper pleads guilty to snaring fox - press release from Scottish SPCA.

More details from the case reported earlier today.

Further to this afternoon’s blog about the conviction today of Scottish gamekeeper Thomas Ebner for a snaring offence in April 2023 (here), the Scottish SPCA has issued the following press re…

Scottish gamekeeper convicted of snaring offence.Convicted this morning for an offence that happened in 2023. All snares...
20/01/2025

Scottish gamekeeper convicted of snaring offence.

Convicted this morning for an offence that happened in 2023. All snares have since been banned in Scotland since 25th Nov 2024.

A Scottish gamekeeper has pleaded guilty to a snaring offence and has been fined £1,250. Thomas Ebner, 74, of Lakeside, Reston, Berwickshire, had previously pleaded not guilty to four charges relat…

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