As a follow-up to last weekend’s story about Mountain Hare culls in the Cairngorms National Park (you may have read it here first) Rob Edwards writes in today’s Glasgow Herald of the role of the Queen’s highland estate. Mass culls of Mountain Hares have, it seems, been undertaken at Delnadamph – part of the Balmoral…
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Four interesting cases – #4
And our fourth example of illegal persecution is a Welsh one. It is the case described by the Raptor Persecution Scotland blog here and here and then as follows (an extract) on the RSPB Investigations blog. It’s another eye-opening account of what is going on, and this time it is in a Welsh National Park…
Four interesting cases – #3
This is the third example of a case of illegal raptor persecution – this one is from Scotland and was taken from Tingay, R.E. (2015). Natural Injustice – Paper I: A review of the enforcement of wildlife protection legislation in Scotland. Scottish Environment LINK, Perth, Scotland. “A white-tailed eagle was found dead close to the…
Four interesting cases – #2
For our second example of a case of illegal raptor persecution that did not make it to the courts I’ll take you back to the ‘Sandringham harriers case’. This is an extract from Fighting for Birds (pp196-98): Mark writes in Fighting for Birds: I was on a train to London on 24 October 2007 when…
Your top three happiness habits?
I bet something to do with nature is one of them – it is for many people (including me).
An eye-opener on optics
Ethical Consumer magazine has published a report on the links between optics companies (binoculars, telescopes, cameras) and hunting. It’s an eye-opener. Now I had occasionally thought about the fact that the people who make birdwatchers’ binoculars might well be selling the same or similar to hunters – and to be honest it has never worried…
Mountain Hare leveret caught in a trap
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Original blog on this subject from August 2015. If this image of a Mountain Hare leveret caught in a gamekeeper’s trap upsets you, then please remember that this type of thing is going on in our National Parks wherever driven grouse shooting bumps up against Mountain Hares, and make your views known through this website…
Mountain Hares – ending up in a gamekeeper’s stink pit
If this image of dead Mountain Hares lying in a gamekeeper’s stink pit upsets you, then please remember that this type of thing is going on in our National Parks wherever driven grouse shooting bumps up against Mountain Hares and make your views known through this website on the future of our National Parks. You…
Protect the Mountain Hare in National Parks
If this image of a truckload of ‘inconvenient’ Mountain Hares in the Cairngorms National Park upsets you, then please make your views known by signing this e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting. You could also sign this e-petition asking Scottish ministers to protect the Mountain Hare.
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The subject of yesterday’s blog, mass killing of Mountain Hares in the Cairngorms National Park at a time when landowners have been asked to show restraint, was also covered in the Glasgow Herald and on the Raptor Persecution Scotland blog (but this blog was the first place to publish the photo above). The Herald‘s Rob…