Watching Spring watch last night millions of viewers will have witnessed the unnecessary death of a Golden Eagle chick in Stirlingshire. It was filmed in a tree eyrie as part of a scientific test to see if new clear felling of Sitka Spruce would benefit food for eagles at large with the expected doubling of […]
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[airesizeimg src=”http://raptorpolitics.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/DSCF1381Langholm.jpg” alt=”DSCF1381Langholm” class=”aligncenter size-full wp-image-24111″ ] Langholm moor, bird watchers are now flocking to this area to photograph or just watch raptors Most of the public think the Langholm Moor Demonstration Project finished last year [2017] but did it? Raptor Politics have been told that it is still going on […] On the 19th of December 2017, a group of 22 griffon vultures (Gyps fulvus)started their travel from Extremadura (Spain) to Bulgaria for a reintroduction project in the Stara Planina Mountains. [airesizeimg src=”http://raptorpolitics.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/4.jpg” alt=”4″ class=”aligncenter size-full wp-image-23609″ ] […] Adonis – the great traveler, is back home – it has been seen in the Grands Causses, where it was released in 2014 as part of the reintroduction project there – now managed under the LIFE GYPCONNECT project. […] The tv channel ARTE – available on many cable packages – will air a spectacular documentary on the reintroduction of the bearded vulture in the Pre-Alps and the Grands Causses, and our own project LIFE GYPCONNECT, this Saturday 19th November at 20h (Central European Time), in the programme 360° GEO.
[airesizeimg src=”http://raptorpolitics.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/LANGHOLME-WEB-2.jpg” alt=”LANGHOLME-WEB-2″ class=”aligncenter size-full wp-image-22954″ ] The end of August 2017 sees the end of a 10 year programme to make Langholm moor a biodiverse area along with Red Grouse shooting. Red Grouse shooting never took place as the bar was set too high. Red Grouse shooting could have taken place but there was […]
The 3 stuffed Hen Harriers inside this display cabinet formed a small part of a larger number of illegally shot Bowland raptors which were confiscated by Lancashire police under a search warrant from the home of award winning photographer Dennis Green. When police raided Greens home they uncovered several cases […] [airesizeimg src=”http://raptorpolitics.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Bearded-Vulture-Relaease.jpg” alt=”Bearded Vulture Relaease” class=”aligncenter size-full wp-image-22653″ ] This year the VCF and its partners are hoping to release 18 young bearded vultures into the wild in Europe –a new record, and a significant boost to the populations of this species in our continent. Due to the several […] In the last few days black vultures have been observed in some unusual localities in northern France: Two individuals were seen at La Chapelle-sous-Uchon in Saône-et-Loire on the 3th of May, while another Black Vulture and two Griffons were seen in Audrehem in Pas-de-Calais two days earlier. […] Roc Genèse, the first wild bearded vulture nestling ever tagged in the French pre-Pyrenees, came back to its natal area after months of wandering across the Central Pyrenees. […] |
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