FIRECREST TOURS : Guided Birdwatching & Wildlife Days

Last week a new scientific study was published, led by eminent researchers from the University of Cambridge, showing that three years into a five-year pledge to completely phase out lead shot in UK game hunting, 94% of pheasants on sale for human consumption were killed using toxic lead ammunition (see here). The continued use of … Continue reading "Question tabled in House of Lords on gamebird shooting industry’s failure to stop using toxic lead ammunition" RaptorPersecutionUK https://ift.tt/FafSUZD

Last month I wrote about how a number of key conservation and animal welfare organisations had apparently been excluded from submitting evidence to the Scottish Government’s independent review on whether the Scottish SPCA should be given increased powers to enable them to investigate a wider suite of wildlife crimes (see here). A Freedom of Information … Continue reading "More detail provided on why key conservation organisations were excluded from Scottish Government’s review on increasing SSPCA powers" RaptorPersecutionUK https://ift.tt/vfZD36T

The National Trust (NT) has terminated another grouse-shooting lease in the Peak District National Park after the RSPB uncovered evidence of suspected wildlife crime on one of the NT’s tenanted grouse moors. The shooting lease, on NT moorland at Park Hall, was held by a nearby grouse shooting estate called the Hurst & Chunal. It … Continue reading "National Trust terminates another grouse-shooting lease after more evidence of suspected wildlife crime in Peak District National Park" RaptorPersecutionUK https://ift.tt/ShBDkEd