Gamekeeper pleads guilty in England’s first-ever Hen Harrier persecution case On 29 January at York Magistrates Court Racster Dingwall – a head gamekeeper on the Conistone and Grassington Estate in the Yorkshire Dales National Park – pleaded guilty to conspiring to kill Hen Harrier. Footage and sound recordings obtained lawfully by the RSPB’s Investigations team were…
Tag: Yorkshire Dales
Yorkshire Dales NP takes the high ground on raptor persecution
There have been previous signs that the Yorkshire Dales National Park is ashamed of its deserved reputation as being a raptor persecution hotspot – and wants to do what it can to highlight the issue and move people towards a solution. This is in stark contrast with the inspid response of the Peak District National…
Yorkshire Dales have a lead mountain to climb.
As the Yorkshire Dales National Park drags itself, with the help of a public consultation, towards the twenty-first century it may have to work very hard on some of its board members to take the journey. Adrian Thornton-Berry is a member of the YDNP Management Plan Steering group committee, a Moorland Association committee member and…
Yorkshire Dales National Park takes note?
English National Parks in the uplands, particularly the Yorkshire Dales NP, Peak District NP and North Yorks Moors NP (and while we are at it the Nidderdale AONB, Forest of Bowland AONB and North Pennines AONB) are being forced by public pressure to address the issues of wildlife crime and raptor persecution in their areas….
Our Yorkshire Dales
You can have your say in the future of one of our wildlife crime hotspots – otherwise known as the Yorkshire Dales National Park. This consultation is very much to be welcomed and it’s very quick to complete; if you can remember your gender, age and postcode then you can fill in 3 of the…
Shot Buzzard in Yorkshire Dales National Park – hardly news!
Police are appealing for information as another dead raptor is found in the Yorkshire Dales National Park – this time a Buzzard just about a mile from the much-visited Malham Cove Peregrine site. The bird’s body was found (no details of when are given – 16 May) by a local farmer and a post-mortem X-ray…
Hen Harriers in the Yorkshire Dales National Park (not)
Wouldn’t you love to be able to see a food pass by a pair of Hen Harriers in a National Park near you? The Yorkshire Dales National Park has much excellent habitat for Hen Harriers – it ought, with the adjacent Nidderdale AONB, to have at least a dozen nesting pairs. Since 2000, there should,…
Poletraps on the Yorkshire Dales grouse moors – caution!
In a blog post that should change the course of the summer, the RSPB reveals a case of three poletraps being placed on a grouse moor in the Yorkshire Dales National Park. What the RSPB says: Read it all here, but here’s a summary. Three set pole traps were found on a grouse moor in…
Sunday book review – Yorkshire Dales by John Lee
Sometimes I have a book for a while and I keep putting it down and the voice in my head says ‘I’ll settle down and read it a bit later’ and when that happens it’s a pretty good bet that I’m not going to be gripped by the book. This was one of those books…
Henry in the Dales
Henry looks sad near the place where Bowland Betty, a young satellite-tagged Hen Harrier, was found dead in 2012. ‘So, these are the Yorkshire Dales’ said Henry. See here for more of the story. #HaveYouSeenHenry?