Natural England has admitted that another hen harrier – tagged as part of a conservation project – has gone missing on a grouse moor. The male Hen Harrier, named Harold, disappeared in the same area where another juvenile, Dryad, vanished last September. The moorland between Kirkby Stephen and Ravenseat where the birds’ tags stopped transmitting […]

Police are urging people to protect wildlife across Yorkshire during the country’s third national lockdown following a spate of incidents. West Yorkshire Police has already recorded three fatal shootings of kestrels in the first week of January alone, compared to just one in the whole of 2020. Two offences took place in Huddersfield and one […]

Police Scotland has confirmed that a red kite found dead in the Ruthven area in October, had been poisoned with a banned pesticide. Further searches were carried out on 15 December 2020 with partner agency RSPB on hill ground near Meall a’ Bhreacraibh and Ruthven, Moy, in the northern Monadliath mountains. No further poisoned raptors […]