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This is our second update this spring, and frankly this is one of the most appalling seasons for our moorland raptors we have experienced in a long long time, and the situation has all the characteristics of deteriorating much further. [airesizeimg src=”http://raptorpolitics.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Dodo.jpg” alt=”Dodo” class=”aligncenter size-full wp-image-20925″ ] […] An account of a day walking the isolated and beautiful fells of Lancashire’s Forest of Bowland, where indigenous raptors that were reasonably common twenty years age are being threatened by unprecedented illegal practices. These criminal activities are being specifically undertaken to conserve and increase red grouse numbers which are then shot for sport at the […] Police have joined forces with wildlife experts to combat bird of prey killings in the county with the UK’s worst record for attacks. […] The Vulture Multi-species Action Plan (Vulture MsAP), approved recently in the conference of the parties of the Convention for Migratory Species – a global strategic blueprint identifying priorities and actions to conserve 15 species of old world vultures – says it clearly: (illegal) poison with poisoned baits (often against predators of […] The RSPB has ended its involvement with the Peak District Bird of Prey Initiative, following the partnership project’s continued failure to improve the fortunes of raptors in the Dark Peak. [airesizeimg src=”http://raptorpolitics.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Osprey-web.jpg” alt=”Osprey-web” class=”aligncenter size-full wp-image-23747″ ] This Osprey was found in the Peak District National Park in 2015 with two broken legs […] Government body responsible for wildlife protection issues first license for Hen Harrier ‘brood meddling’ on grouse moors. [airesizeimg src=”http://raptorpolitics.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/HenHarrierweb.jpg” alt=”HenHarrierweb” class=”aligncenter size-full wp-image-23725″ ] Hen Harrier chicks and eggs will be removed from nests, reared in captivity and released but to what fate? (© Ian Newton) In a highly controversial move, that will […]
During the Christmas holidays members of the North West Raptor Protection Group have been working on a strategy to provide improved security at Forest of Bowland Peregrine nesting territories during the forthcoming 2018 season. Using funding provided by supporters of their on going GoFundMe campaign the group have now installed several state […] Details about the distribution and population size of the Egyptian vulture in Armenia have recently been published in the Atlas on Breeding Birds of Armenia, a project led by Armenian NGO Armenian Bird Census TSE. [airesizeimg src=”http://raptorpolitics.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/mapweb.jpg” alt=”mapweb” class=”aligncenter size-full wp-image-23459″ ]
My early days in Derbyshire. [airesizeimg src=”http://raptorpolitics.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/snow-drift-web-1947.jpg” alt=”snow-drift-web-1947″ class=”aligncenter size-full wp-image-23449″ ] 1947 in Derbyshire As the second world war was coming to an end I first saw daylight when I was born in Glossop just two miles from the boundary of the soon to be formed Peak District National […] [airesizeimg src=”http://raptorpolitics.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Red-Kite-names.jpg” alt=”Red Kite names” class=”aligncenter size-full wp-image-23336″ ] [airesizeimg src=”http://raptorpolitics.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Red-Kite.jpg” alt=”Red Kite” class=”aligncenter size-full wp-image-23333″ ] [airesizeimg src=”http://raptorpolitics.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Capture-Red-Kite-web.jpg” alt=”Capture-Red-Kite-web” class=”aligncenter size-full wp-image-23329″ ] You are able to read the complete paper here [airesizeimg src=”http://raptorpolitics.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Poisoned-Red-Kite.jpg” alt=”Poisoned Red Kite” class=”aligncenter size-full wp-image-23330″ ] Poisoned Red Kite: Image courtesy […] |
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