Extra measures to protect Scotland’s birds of prey. Almost a third of golden eagles being tracked by satellite died in suspicious circumstances, scientists have found. The Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) research identified that the majority of cases were found where land is intensively managed for driven grouse shooting. Environment Secretary Roseanna Cunningham confirmed to the […]

Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) has revoked a licence to control wild birds at Raeshaw Estates as a result of on-going concerns about wildlife crime. Police Scotland is now investigating the potential offences on the Scottish Borders estate. Source: SNH To read the full article, click here.

Following the successful launch of Operation Raptor in March 2016 the PSNI have continued to show their commitment to wildlife crime by contributing to a UK initiative named “Peregrine Watch”. Peregrine Watch is an initiative to stop any peregrine persecution and this can include theft of eggs and chicks from nests and/or the killing of […]

After a successful call for hen harrier sightings last year, Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) and the Heads Up for Harriers project are once more asking people to report sightings of this special bird. Hen harriers remain one of Scotland’s rarest and most spectacular birds of prey. The Heads Up for Harriers Project wants to hear […]

New RSPB report shows illegal killing of birds of prey is still unacceptably common with 196 reports of shooting and destruction of birds of prey and 50 reports of wildlife poisoning and pesticide related offences across the UK in 2015. The charity believes tougher legislation and enforcement is essential if birds of prey are to […]

He has dangled from helicopters and abseiled down cliffs in search of falcon eggs for wealthy Arab clients. Jeffrey Lendrum even tried to dupe customs officials at Birmingham airport into believing that his stolen contraband was hen eggs from a supermarket and that he had strapped them to his chest as a cure for back […]

A pensioner was fined £4,700 after being found with hundreds of protected bird eggs. William Beaton, 73, from Devon, admitted stealing eggs from across the country. He pleaded guilty to taking Barn owl eggs in Norfolk and the eggs of other protected birds in Orkney. Plymouth Magistrates’ Court heard he was found in possession of […]

A Royal Estate owned by the family of Prince William and Harry’s former nanny has suffered one of Britain’s worst ever wildlife poisonings. Mystery poisoners have been blamed for the “mass killing” of birds of prey on the land belonging to the parents of Tiggy Pettifer (formerly Legge-Bourke), who cared for the princes when they […]

A satellite tag fitted to a hen harrier has stopped transmitting in the same mountains where eight tagged eagles “vanished”, RSPB Scotland has said. The hen harrier fledged at a nest in Aberdeenshire in July. The hen harrier, known as Elwood, was being monitored under a scheme run by the Partnership for Action against Wildlife […]