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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Guest blog – Two years on by Andrea Goddard
Andrea Goddard co-founded Let’s Get MAD for Wildlife in April 2014 and is a passionate wildlife enthusiast who has volunteered for the RSPB for five years in various capacities, but mainly at Tollie red kites. She is studying Environmental Science for a BSc (Hons) at Inverness University of the Highlands and Islands. 2nd Year Anniversary of…
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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…