RSPB recruit overnight “Protection Staff” to help guard hen harriers at 3 Northern England regions

Reference number: 7020214 Location: Northern England

RSPB’s Northern England region is recruiting for six seasonal flexible contract staff for overnight nest protection of hen harriers in Northern England. The posts will most likely be based in Northumberland, Cumbria (Geltsdale) or Lancashire’s Forest of Bowland, but with the flexibility to move elsewhere dependent on the […]

February 19th, 2014 | Category: Hen Harriers | 7 comments - (Comments are closed)

Raptor Politics praised by new web site.

A recently launched web site, Birders against wildlife crime have given a ‘thumbs up’ to the Raptor Politics web site as an inspiration to their new beginning. Charlie Moores said ‘Thanks very much for getting in touch – I’d be delighted to add a link (and once we get the BAWC website up and running […]

February 19th, 2014 | Category: song bird survival (The SS) | Comments are closed

The country landowner is not some kind of wildlife serial killer.

Writing in today’s’ Scotsman (19/02/2014), Lord David Johnstone, Annandale Estates, Lockerbie makes a bold claim estate landowners are not all serial wildlife killers. Although we accept that a high number of estate landowners in Scotland may have no direct association with killing protected wildlife, a high proportion of estate gamekeepers are involved in the […]

February 19th, 2014 | Category: Golden Eagle Poisoning, Grouse Moors, Poison | 3 comments - (Comments are closed)