SAVE OUR BIRDS OF PREY - a chance to end raptor persecution
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- čas přidán 25. 11. 2023
- The illegal killing of birds of prey continues in Scotland. But new legislation being debated at the Scottish Parliament may be able to make a difference. It proposes licences for grouse shooting. Where there's evidence of illegality estates could lose their right to shoot grouse.
RSPB Scotland's Head of Land and Species Duncan Orr Ewing looks at the history of raptor persecution and what difference this new legislation might make.
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The few people, who own most of the land, know and condone what is done to the wildlife of Scotland, for the benefit of a small number of “sportsmen”. Thank you for trying to save our osprey and other struggling raptors.
Lies don’t be a idiot they are paying for vital vermin control and habitat management that needs done get your head out the sand
Research the Southern Hen Harrier reintroduction a DEFRA initiative largely put into action by game keepers "published by Defra in its 25-year Environment Plan. However, whilst the reintroduction of a species is an internationally recognised conservation tool, the RSPB does not support its use when it comes to the hen harrier. Indeed, despite being flatly denied by the RSPB, there is clear evidence that they were responsible for preventing Natural England's southern reintroduction of hen harriers using chicks from Spain in 2019.
Correspondence from Defra and Natural England that was obtained by the Countryside Alliance under the Freedom of Information Act clearly showed that someone within the RSPB prevented that reintroduction from happening. This was despite Natural England having all the necessary infrastructure and personnel in place at Parsonage Farm on Salisbury Plain to receive the first hen harriers from Spain in 2019, some £300,000 of public money having been allocated to the project in 2017/18 and 2018/19, and the support of local landowners.
The RSPB has likewise attempted to stop the trial brood management of hen harriers, another key part of the Hen Harrier Action Plan, and one that has done more than anything else to increase the population of the species. This year saw 119 hen harrier chicks fledged successfully from 34 nests across the uplands of Northern England, with a total of 344 chicks now fledged since Natural England issued its first licence for the brood management trial in 2018. That is three more than the total of 331 chicks fledged during the previous 18 years. Given the considerable success of brood management, we were extremely pleased that in November 2021, the Court of Appeal upheld the decision of the High Court to dismiss legal challenges that had been bought against the trial by the RSPB, the High Court dismissing their application on all the seven grounds they argued.
With their sabotaging of Natural England's southern introduction of hen harriers in 2019, and last year's legal challenge of the trial brood management, the RSPB is clearly trying to disrupt the efforts of those that are working in partnership to improve the hen harrier's range and conservation status. It is unfortunate that whilst they should be one of the main players in this, they have become little more than an unhelpful hindrance."
Looking forward to this bill passing and a major step forward in bringing the shameful persecution of our birds of prey in Scotland to an end!
Power to the good people. Hope you succeed in saving these amazing birds.
thank you to the RSPB its good that you are highlighting it mor,e, which, party would do more i would vote just for them
"...published by Defra in its 25-year Environment Plan. However, whilst the reintroduction of a species is an internationally recognised conservation tool, the RSPB does not support its use when it comes to the hen harrier. Indeed, despite being flatly denied by the RSPB, there is clear evidence that they were responsible for preventing Natural England's southern reintroduction of hen harriers using chicks from Spain in 2019.
Correspondence from Defra and Natural England that was obtained by the Countryside Alliance under the Freedom of Information Act clearly showed that someone within the RSPB prevented that reintroduction from happening. This was despite Natural England having all the necessary infrastructure and personnel in place at Parsonage Farm on Salisbury Plain to receive the first hen harriers from Spain in 2019, some £300,000 of public money having been allocated to the project in 2017/18 and 2018/19, and the support of local landowners.
The RSPB has likewise attempted to stop the trial brood management of hen harriers, another key part of the Hen Harrier Action Plan, and one that has done more than anything else to increase the population of the species. This year saw 119 hen harrier chicks fledged successfully from 34 nests across the uplands of Northern England, with a total of 344 chicks now fledged since Natural England issued its first licence for the brood management trial in 2018. That is three more than the total of 331 chicks fledged during the previous 18 years. Given the considerable success of brood management, we were extremely pleased that in November 2021, the Court of Appeal upheld the decision of the High Court to dismiss legal challenges that had been bought against the trial by the RSPB, the High Court dismissing their application on all the seven grounds they argued.
With their sabotaging of Natural England's southern introduction of hen harriers in 2019, and last year's legal challenge of the trial brood management, the RSPB is clearly trying to disrupt the efforts of those that are working in partnership to improve the hen harrier's range and conservation status. It is unfortunate that whilst they should be one of the main players in this, they have become little more than an unhelpful hindrance."
"Those people who work within the law should have absolutely nothing to fear from this legislation"
That's roughly 0% of them.
Untrue, the most effective breeding programs are all taking place on gamekeeper managed land
Google "Southern Hen Harrier reintroduction" and you may find the rest of this article I have pasted.
"published by Defra in its 25-year Environment Plan. However, whilst the reintroduction of a species is an internationally recognised conservation tool, the RSPB does not support its use when it comes to the hen harrier. Indeed, despite being flatly denied by the RSPB, there is clear evidence that they were responsible for preventing Natural England's southern reintroduction of hen harriers using chicks from Spain in 2019.
Correspondence from Defra and Natural England that was obtained by the Countryside Alliance under the Freedom of Information Act clearly showed that someone within the RSPB prevented that reintroduction from happening. This was despite Natural England having all the necessary infrastructure and personnel in place at Parsonage Farm on Salisbury Plain to receive the first hen harriers from Spain in 2019, some £300,000 of public money having been allocated to the project in 2017/18 and 2018/19, and the support of local landowners.
The RSPB has likewise attempted to stop the trial brood management of hen harriers, another key part of the Hen Harrier Action Plan, and one that has done more than anything else to increase the population of the species. This year saw 119 hen harrier chicks fledged successfully from 34 nests across the uplands of Northern England, with a total of 344 chicks now fledged since Natural England issued its first licence for the brood management trial in 2018. That is three more than the total of 331 chicks fledged during the previous 18 years. Given the considerable success of brood management, we were extremely pleased that in November 2021, the Court of Appeal upheld the decision of the High Court to dismiss legal challenges that had been bought against the trial by the RSPB, the High Court dismissing their application on all the seven grounds they argued.
With their sabotaging of Natural England's southern introduction of hen harriers in 2019, and last year's legal challenge of the trial brood management, the RSPB is clearly trying to disrupt the efforts of those that are working in partnership to improve the hen harrier's range and conservation status. It is unfortunate that whilst they should be one of the main players in this, they have become little more than an unhelpful hindrance."
I’m sure there are many sporting estates in Scotland that conserve wildlife, preserve and enhance habitat and are opposed to the persecution of birds of prey. They provide much needed jobs and earnings for the local rural economy, which is often struggling. Please don’t tar them all with the same brush. The RSPB needs to cooperate with these estates and much wildlife crime is committed by rogue individuals, not supported by the shooting industry, which has been trying to improve its practices.
@@stonemarten1400 I'm Not.
Thanks you for the work you do,
It shames our country that this should continue to be tolerated. These “sporting” estates belong back in the 19th century.
I came onto this comment section to ask whether RSPB might be interested in volunteers to watch over areas of the Highlands to help in the fight against wildlife crime? Having read some of the comments savaging sporting estates in Scotland, I would say it’s not fair to tar them all with the same brush, as many are modernising into re-wilding, afforestation and conservation management. The RSPB will need to work with these more enlightened estates if they are going to make much meaningful progress in protecting rare species, such as the Hen Harrier. Don’t make this a hostile situation, with estates on one side and nature interests on the other.
What a sorry story 😢. Keep up the good work 👏
I used to live in the Highlands and everyone knows everyone. The 'sportsmen' shooting these birds will be well known in the communities there.
Keep up the good work
I’m afraid money overrules laws nothing changes, has been going on for years, still the same if not increasing, heartbreaking to see decline of these beautiful birds, man’s selfishness ruining the planet.😢😢
I'm sure I've heard the short eared owl hunting close to me.
Keep trying