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RSPB press release:
RSPB Scotland welcomes official SNP policy support for licensing shooting estates
Motion approved at National Council
A landmark decision by Scottish National Party (SNP) delegates to adopt officially a policy supporting licensing of driven grouse shooting estates has been welcomed by RSPB Scotland.
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Northumberland Hen Harrier Protection Partnership
Friday 24 November 2017
Media release
Police and the RSPB are appealing for information following the disappearance of a satellite-tagged hen harrier near Carlisle.
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Yesterday 28th September Mr James Hartley a 34 year old gamekeeper from the Bleasdale estate appeared in the dock at Preston Magistrates Court facing nine charges relating to the alleged killing of two peregrine falcons in April 2016 on the estate where he was employed. […]
Eleanor is a wildlife conservationist and raptor enthusiast from Northumberland with an MSc in Biodiversity Conservation and Ecosystem Management from Newcastle University.
She indulges her passion for wildlife through photography and writing.
Twitter: @DaisyEleanorug
We have all heard of the expression ‘to turn a blind eye’, meaning to pretend that a particular act […]
We have at last managed to upload our Forest of Bowland Hen Harrier Day video diary in 3 separate parts. Each video attached below can be viewed individually allowing you to come back to the 2nd and 3rd video as and when you choose to do so.
Hen Harrier Day 2017, Dunsop Bridge, Forest of […]
UPDATE: Items purchased with the help of our GoFundMe campaign
First may I thank everyone of you who have kindly donated towards our GoFundMe campaign, ‘Help save the Bowland Peregrines’.
I must apologise for not providing details of items purchased with your support and financial backing until today. The reason for that is because we […]
Sorry for the delay in posting my latest update, I have been taking a few days away getting a well deserved rest.
Not good news I am sorry to announce. So far we have been able to establish there are no breeding Hen Harrier in the Forest of Bowland this year. In April I did […]
On an unusually warm sunny morning at the beginning of April two members of the North West Raptor Protection Group were watching a male Hen Harrier at a well known breeding territory in the Forest of Bowland on moorland owned by United Utilities. Conducting their meticulous observations from an elevated position overlooking a potential territory […]
In his latest video Terry Pickford highlights two effective but legal management strategies introduced on grouse moor estates in northern England designed to unsettle peregrines and hen harriers, preventing these species from settling to breed on moorland where red grouse are shot.
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The last three breeding seasons for Bowland’s apex raptors such as peregrine and hen harrier have been appalling, failing completely to deliver any increase in breeding productivity for both species throughout the Bowland fells in west Lancashire. In 2014 Sky and Hope two satellite tagged hen harrier chicks disappeared after migrating away […]
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