For ages, and ages, and ages our big brother of a blog, RaptorPersecutionUK and this blog have been asking NE when they are going to publish the results of their long-lasting Hen Harrier study. One of my first blogs on the subject was back in May 2012 when I was barely out of short trousers….
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Hen Harrier Sensitive Zones in Bowland
The Bowland Fells SPA sits between Lancaster and Clitheroe, and High Bentham and Longridge, east of the M6 in Lancashire. It was classified in 1993 and one of the qualifying criteria was the number of nesting pairs of Hen Harriers (13) at that time. For a long time Bowland was the English stronghold of this…
Government promoting William Powell Sporting Agency
The government website is promoting William Powell Sporting Agency through a link on their website to Snilesworth Moor. If you click on Snilesworth Moor in the above link you are taken to the William Powell website… Days of up to 250 brace can be shot here which, at £150/brace comes to a cool £37,500 for…
Great timing!
Gove meets the Dukes (and see here) and NE meet the ‘keepers. You couldn’t get a cosier relationship between the regulator and the regulated (ha! ha!) than that between Defra/NE and the industry responsible for large chunks of wildlife crime and unsustainable moorland management. For an alternative view turn to yesterday’s statement from Sue…
Just a small plea (and a big table)
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This table was produced by Raptor Persecution UK and it is a valuable resource because it’s quite difficult to find these figures all in one place anywhere else. I assume it is correct – RPUK usually are – and it looks right to me, but I haven’t checked it (because it is a surprising amount…
Mountain Hares close to extinction on NE Scotland grouse moors
That paper on Mountain Hares summed up by its title, abstract and in two graphs: Title: ‘Seven decades of mountain hare counts show severe declines where high-yield recreational game bird hunting is practised‘ by Adam Watson and Jeremy Wilson, published in Journal of Applied Ecology. Abstract Recreational hunting is widespread and can benefit nature conservation…
Mountain hares (not) on Scottish grouse moors
Do you remember this video (above) about the killing of Mountain Hares on grouse moors? And this photo of a Mountain Hare leveret caught in a trap … …and this one of a truck load of dead Mountain Hares on a Scottish grouse moor… Today the RSPB released the following press release of…
Labour: It’s time to end grouse moor practices that harm the environment
Sue Hayman, the Shadow Environment Secretary has called for an end to rotational heather burning and an independent review into the economic, environmental and wildlife impacts of driven grouse shooting. ‘Driven grouse shooting uses intensive land and wildlife management to create a false environment in which grouse flourish. Natural habitats and ecosystems are managed in…
Really thunderous Findlay
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There are many thunderous supporters of Findlay Wide’s thunderclap that will echo out on 12 August. Supporters include the RSPB, RSPCA, Wildlife Trusts, Chris Packham, Caroline Lucas MP, Natalie Bennett, Nick Miles, Birdwatch, Birdguides, Rare Bird Alert, Birders Against Wildlife Crime and lots and lots of others, as you can see by the numbers…
RSPB publishes video of trapped Peregrine from Bowland grouse moor
This morning, in this blog, the RSPB have published this video … … which has prompted this excellent blog by RaptorPersecutionUK.