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Recovered satellite tag provides answer to what happens when birds of prey ‘disappear’ on Scotland’s grouse moors A satellite tag removed from a ‘disappeared’ golden eagle has been recovered from a Highland river. The discovery sheds new light on the activities that criminals will go to in a bid to cover up the illegal killing…

In 2014 I wrote a few blogs about a puzzling hedge (see here, here, here) and I revisited it in 2017 (see here). The resolution to the puzzle was that a farmer had driven down the road with his spray still on and had, accidentally, sprayed over a mile of roadside hedge. This happened, probably…

I wrote to my MP, Tom Pursglove, only c10 days ago and have had a rapid response as follows: Dear Mark, Thank you for your email. In it, you pose several questions – the second and third of which I have passed to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, the Rt….

Wild Justice submitted an e-petition to the House of Commons Petitions Committee over 50 days ago – they are clearly very busy but quite why it took so long, I can’t say. But after a flurry of activity yesterday it was published around 09:30 this morning and we started promoting it around 10:30. By 12:30…

Frank Hamilton was a very early RSPB staff member, back in the 1950s when there were only a few handfuls of staff. He retired as Director, Scotland in 1993. Almost epitomising the early staff of the RSPB he (and most were male) was a keen birdwatcher with a huge enthusiasm for birds, nature and wildlife…