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Natural England refused 2 licence applications to release gamebirds next to Deben Estuary SPA in Suffolk last year, due to high risk of Avian Flu.

The shoot operator went ahead anyway, telling police he was 'new' & 'not linked' to the licence applicant.

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Unlawful release of gamebirds & breaches of Avian Flu biosecurity regulations next to protected site in Suffolk
The conservation campaign group Wild Justice has published a blog detailing the unlawful release of gamebirds (Pheasants & Red-legged Partridges) next to a protected site in Suffolk, along with…
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January 14, 2026 at 2:03 PM
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FOURTH White-tailed Eagle disappears - RSPB offers reward for information leading to a conviction for this one or any of the other three.

New blog ⬇️⬇️

#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime

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Fourth White-tailed Eagle ‘disappears’ & RSPB offers £10,000 reward for information leading to a conviction
Following the appalling news over the last couple of days about the highly suspicious, and almost certainly criminal, disappearance of three satellite-tagged White-tailed Eagles here, here and here…
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December 19, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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Another Hen Harrier suspected illegally killed on a grouse moor, her satellite tag had been 'removed'.

Details and commentary ⬇️⬇️

#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime

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Another Hen Harrier suspected illegally killed on a grouse moor, her satellite tag had been ‘removed’
Over the last few weeks I’ve blogged about a number of illegally-killed Hen Harriers whose deaths have been barely publicised by the authorities, but instead have been quietly entered onto a …
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December 11, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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Hen Harrier found poisoned on a grouse moor in North Yorkshire.

Once again, details have only come to light through scrutiny of a spreadsheet - where's the publicity from the Police? This is supposed to be a national wildlife crime priority!

#RaptorResearch

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Hen Harrier found poisoned on a grouse moor in North Yorkshire
I’ve blogged recently about a number of illegally-killed Hen Harriers whose deaths have not been publicised by the authorities (Hen Harrier ‘Susie’ who was found dead with gunshot…
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December 1, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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Goshawk dies from gunshot injuries in Aberdeenshire. Police Scotland appeals for information.

#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime #BirdingScotland

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Goshawk dies from gunshot injuries in Aberdeenshire – Police Scotland appeals for information
Press release from Police Scotland (1 December 2025): APPEAL FOR INFORMATION AFTER BIRD OF PREY SHOT IN ABERDEENSHIRE Officers are appealing for information after a bird of prey was shot in Aberdee…
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December 1, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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Fifteen Years

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Comic. Panels up to the 10-year point are grayed out. New panels since the Ten Years comic, which chronicles the first ten years of PERSON 1's journey with cancer: (1) [two people in bed] PERSON 1 (woman): One more chapter? PERSON 2 (man): Don’t we both have to get up early? PERSON 1: Nnnnnggggh PERSON 2: Sure, good point. (2) [many people wearing masks, walking while looking at graphs on their phones] (3) [birds landing on people] PERSON 2 in beanie and scarf: Hah! They like *my* seeds best. PERSON 1 in scarf holding phone with a bird sitting on it: Wait, how do I take a picture of this one? (4) [two people rowing boats with tree landscape] (5) [Person 1 carries overflowing stack of things to Person 2 in bed] PERSON 1: I brought you honey lemon tea, more pillows, a cinnamon roll, Tylenol, another blanket, a– PERSON 2: It was just Appendicitis, I’m really– PERSON 1: *It is my turn to take care of you and I am going to do it right!* (6) [Two people in car] (7) [still in car) PERSON 1: Oh my god. PERSON 2: Oh my god. (8) [car driving] PERSON 1: Pull over! PERSON 2: I am! (9) [both people get out of car] (10) [Large colored panel of aurora borealis over water with both people looking on] (11) [Person 1 sits against tree while Person 2 lies on the ground] PERSON 1: Fifteen years. No sign of the cancer. (12) I *am* having some weird symptoms. Joint pain. Fatigue. I think I’m losing my close-up vision. PERSON 2: Yeah. Me too. (13) PERSON 2: I think we’re getting old. (14) PERSON 1: I guess that’s okay. PERSON 2: It’s all I wanted.
November 26, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐍 𝐅𝐎𝐗𝐇𝐔𝐍𝐓 𝐓𝐇𝐑𝐎𝐖 𝐀 𝐃𝐔𝐆-𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐅𝐎𝐗 𝐓𝐎 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐇𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐃𝐒

We can reveal the moment a fox was dug-out from their refuge, before being callously and cruelly thrown to waiting fox hounds during a meet in the Lake District National Park. Read more ⬇️

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Coniston Foxhounds in the act of digging out a fox and ripping her to pieces
YouTube video by Hunt Saboteurs
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November 12, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime

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Sparrowhawk shot in Towcester – Northants Police appeals for information
Press release from Northants Police (14 November 2025) BIRD OF PREY KILLED IN TOWCESTER Police officers from the Rural Crime Team are appealing for witnesses after a bird of prey was found dead in …
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November 15, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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Hen Harrier Susie, whose chicks were stamped to death on a Yorkshire Dales grouse moor in 2022, has been found dead on a N Pennines grouse moor with gunshot injuries.

18+ months of silence about this crime from the police & Natural England.

#RaptorResearch

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Hen Harrier ‘Susie’, whose chicks were stamped to death in 2022, has been found dead on a North Pennines grouse moor with gunshot injuries
If ever there was an example demonstrating the high level of persecution faced by Hen Harriers on UK grouse moors, the lack of consequences for the offenders, and the lack of justice for the victim…
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November 14, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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X-ray reveals shotgun pellets embedded in ‘grounded’ Buzzard, Nottinghamshire
An x-ray of a grounded Buzzard has revealed two embedded shotgun pellets and a broken tail, according to Brinsley Animal Rescue in Nottinghamshire. A statement published by the charity yesterday re…
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November 13, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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raptorpersuk.bsky.social
Another example of the thoughtless, feckless and unaccountable actions of the UK gamebird shooting industry, who yet again do what they like, when they like and to hell with the consequences, because there aren’t any.

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Shot Pheasants & Red-legged Partridges dumped in Penicuik, Scotland
It’s another gamebird shooting season and that means shot Pheasants and Red-legged Partridges being illegally dumped (fly-tipped) by the side of a road. Thanks to the blog reader who alerted …
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November 3, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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raptorpersuk.bsky.social
Gosh, what a mystery. Whatever could have happened to them?

No bodies, no tags, no prosecutions, no accountability, no deterrent. This will continue.

#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime

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Two Golden Eagles ‘disappear’ in south Scotland – Police appeal for information
Press release from Police Scotland, 29 September 2025: APPEAL FOR MISSING GOLDEN EAGLE Detectives are appealing for information after a satellite-tagged golden eagle disappeared in the hills to the…
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September 29, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Press statement from Police Scotland 🔽

#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime #BirdingScotland #Ornithology

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Red Kite found dead in Perthshire confirmed to have been poisoned (banned pesticide + rodenticides)
Press release from Police Scotland (24 September 2025): BIRD OF PREY FOUND TO BE POISONED IN PERTH & KINROSS AREA Enquiries into the death of red kite are ongoing. On 22 June, 2025 a dead red k…
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September 24, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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Stand by for the usual excuses from the usual suspects...Windfarms? Faulty tags? It's all a set-up by anti-game shooting extremists? Etc etc

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Disappearance of two tracked Pine Martens being treated as ‘suspicious’ – Cumbria Police appeals for information
This all sounds horribly familiar. A short article appeared on the BBC News website on 5 August 2025 as follows: The disappearance of two tracked pine martens is being treated as suspicious, police…
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August 7, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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georgemonbiot.bsky.social
It grovels to the racist right while dissing and imprisoning its own supporters.
The Labour Party under Keir Starmer has become the enemy of all that is decent and kind, the enemy of its own voters, the enemy of what it once was.
July 24, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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Four adult breeding Hen Harriers 'vanished' from nest sites in Cumbria & Lancashire in May 2025 - silence from police, valiant conservation efforts from RSPB staff & volunteers.

RSPB press release & some questions from me 🔽

#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime

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Hen Harrier chicks fledge with RSPB support after suspicious loss of parent birds
RSPB press release (24 July 2025) Chicks fledge with RSPB support after suspicious loss of parent Hen Harriers.  In May 2025, over a period of eight days, four breeding male Hen Harriers suspi…
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July 24, 2025 at 5:22 AM
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⏳Final week to sign up to the Green Party.

🗳️ Vote for Bold Leadership on August 1st.
July 23, 2025 at 6:46 AM
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scotnational.bsky.social
Watch as an activist is arrested in Glasgow for displaying a sign reading 'genocide in Palestine, time to take action'

'We're not terrorists', he said as he was taken away by police
July 18, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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georgemonbiot.bsky.social
The police (wrongly) inform a peaceful protestor that holding a Palestinian flag and signs deploring genocide is an offence under the Terrorism Act. This is the deranged policing environment the government has created.
madoc.bsky.social madoc cairns @madoc.bsky.social · Jul 15
Police in Canterbury today informed a protestor that the phrase "Israel is committing genocide in Gaza" could be considered a declaration of support for Palestine Action and therefore a terrorism offence.
July 16, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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georgemonbiot.bsky.social
This is economic warfare by the rich against the rest. The point and purpose of the Labour Party was to resist such attacks. Starmer and Reeves have turned their party into the opposite of what it once was.
July 16, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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madoc.bsky.social
Police in Canterbury today informed a protestor that the phrase "Israel is committing genocide in Gaza" could be considered a declaration of support for Palestine Action and therefore a terrorism offence.
July 15, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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This is about the right to oppose genocide.

This is about our democratic freedoms.

Please sign this petition - and also share it.
Sign the Petition
Don't proscribe Palestine Action
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June 26, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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So the UK Met Office is inviting people to suggest up to 5 names for storms.

And apparently lots of people have been suggesting "Storm Bigoil", along with BP, Equinor, Exxon & Shell...

This is obviously appalling & definitely not to be emulated via this link: www.metoffice.gov.uk/forms/name-o...
Screenshot of form on the UK Met Office website. Text reads: "You can provide up to 5 storm names in the boxes below. Storm Name: [a user has filled this in with "BigOil"] Storm Name (optional): [filled in with BP] Storm Name (optional): [filled in with Equinor] Storm Name (optional): [filled in with Exxon] Storm Name (optional): [filled in with Shell]
June 25, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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raptorpersuk.bsky.social
This is the second shot Raven found in this area in recent months.

RSPB says: ‘…the two Ravens were found very close to grouse moorland, although it is unknown who may have shot them‘.

Yeah, tricky, eh? #springwatch

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Another Raven found shot dead next to grouse moor in notorious persecution hotspot in Peak District National Park
Press release from RSPB, 9 June 2025: ANOTHER SHOT RAVEN, THE LATEST VICTIM IN THE PEAK DISTRICT NATIONAL PARK In February 2025 a Raven was found shot near Bradfield, South Yorkshire, following a s…
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June 9, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Ireland’s oldest breeding white-tailed eagle feared poisoned
Press release from National Parks & Wildlife Service (30 May 2025) Minister O’Sullivan calls for co-operation in the investigation of the possible poisoning of a white-tailed eagle The Na…
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June 3, 2025 at 5:37 PM