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ScotRaptorStudy @ScotRaptorStudy
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Nature Champions@NatureChampions
May 25
📣 Nature Champions News! 📣 @MareeToddMSP is the #NatureChampion for the Golden Eagle! Maree will be working with @ScotRaptorStudy and @RSPBScotland to champion these majestic birds in @ScotParl. Find out more: scotlink.org/species/golden-… CCBY4.0 ScotParl | Simon Jones
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Kelvin Thomson@thomsok
Apr 14
Attending the #MoreforScotlandsAnimals husting in #Edinburgh this evening, representing @ScotRaptorStudy #SRSG
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Scottish Government delays start of muirburn licences (for the second time) after aggressive lobbying by grouse shooting industry raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025… via @RaptorPersUK
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Red Kite found dead in Perthshire confirmed to have been poisoned (banned pesticide rodenticides) raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025… via @RaptorPersUK

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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Private Eye pulls Wild Justice adverts, causing 'Streisand Effect' raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025… via @RaptorPersUK

Private Eye pulls Wild Justice adverts, causing ‘Streisand Effect’

A couple of weeks ago conservation campaign group Wild Justice put a full page advert in Private Eye, the UK’s number one best-selling news and current affairs magazine, to draw readers’ atte…

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'Reclaim Our Moors' - local residents in Sheffield & North Derbyshire start campaign for community ownership of 'trashed' grouse moors raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025… via @RaptorPersUK

‘Reclaim Our Moors’ – local residents in Sheffield & North Derbyshire start campaign for community...

Around 40 local residents from Sheffield and North Derbyshire have started a campaign to bring local grouse moors in to community ownership. The group ‘Reclaim Our Moors’ held its inaug…

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Vengeful shooter sentenced for placing poisoned baits in attempt to frame estate after feud with landowner raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025… via @RaptorPersUK
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Red Kite found dead in Perthshire confirmed to have been poisoned (banned pesticide rodenticides) raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025… via @RaptorPersUK

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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Two men charged in relation to illegal killing of Red Kites in Cairngorms National Park raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025… via @RaptorPersUK

Two men charged in relation to illegal killing of Red Kites in Cairngorms National Park

Police Scotland has today issued a short statement as follows: MEN ARRESTED AND CHARGED FOLLOWING THE DEATH OF RED KITES IN ABERDEENSHIRE Two men have been arrested and charged in connection with w…

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Police Scotland appeal for information after two Red Kites found poisoned in Castle Douglas raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025… via @RaptorPersUK

Police Scotland appeal for information after two Red Kites found poisoned in Castle Douglas

Press release from Police Scotland (2 May 2025) APPEAL FOR INFORMATION AFTER TWO BIRDS OF PREY POISONED IN CASTLE DOUGLAS, DUMFRIES & GALLOWAY Officers are appealing for information after two b…

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BBC rejects Scottish Gamekeepers Association's complaint about programme that linked raptor persecution to land managed for gamebird shooting raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025… via @RaptorPersUK

BBC rejects Scottish Gamekeepers Association’s complaint about programme that linked raptor...

Last November the BBC aired an episode of Highland Cops (Series 2, Episode 4) that featured a Police Scotland Wildlife Crime Officer, PC Dan Sutherland, investigating the suspicious disappearance o…

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Two job opportunities with award-winning charity Birds of Poole Harbour raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025… via @RaptorPersUK
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NatureScot fails to make any compliance checks on use of new grouse moor licences raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025… via @RaptorPersUK

NatureScot fails to make any compliance checks on use of new grouse moor licences

As many of you will be aware, the 2024 grouse shooting season in Scotland (12 Aug – 10 Dec 2024) saw the use of grouse moor licences for the first time ever, introduced by the Wildlife Manage…

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Scottish gamekeeper convicted of snaring offence raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025… via @RaptorPersUK

Scottish gamekeeper convicted of snaring offence

A Scottish gamekeeper has pleaded guilty to a snaring offence and has been fined £1,250. Thomas Ebner, 74, of Lakeside, Reston, Berwickshire, had previously pleaded not guilty to four charges relat…

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Predictable backlash from NFU to proposed releases of White-tailed Eagles raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025… via @RaptorPersUK

Predictable backlash from NFU to proposed releases of White-tailed Eagles

Last week I wrote a blog about three separate proposals to release White-tailed Eagles in Cumbria, Wales, Severn Estuary and Exmoor National Park in a strategic attempt to bolster and connect the c…

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The first action of the new CE of Naturescot should be to lift the lid on this mess. NatureScot capitulated on grouse moor licensing after legal threats by game-shooting industry raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025… via @RaptorPersUK

NatureScot capitulated on grouse moor licensing after legal threats by game-shooting industry

Regular blog readers will know that I’ve been trying to uncover the reasoning and process behind NatureScot’s sudden decision last autumn to change its approach and amend the brand new …

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Licence fees for firearms & shotguns set to increase for 'full-cost recovery' - no more public subsidy! raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025… via @RaptorPersUK

Licence fees for firearms & shotguns set to increase for ‘full-cost recovery’ – no more public su...

The UK Government has announced that licence fees for firearms and shotguns are set to increase next month to allow for ‘full-cost recovery’, which means that taxpayers will no longer b…

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Could please sign this petition to ban toxic lead ammunition. Thank you. “Throw birds a lifeline and ban toxic lead ammunition”, wildlife experts urge government wwt.org.uk/news-and-stories/… via @wwtworldwide
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UK Governments must decide on lead ammunition restrictions by March 2025 - you can have your say to help bring about a ban raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025… via @RaptorPersUK

UK Governments must decide on lead ammunition restrictions by March 2025 – you can have your say to...

In December 2024, long-delayed recommendations by the Health & Safety Executive (HSE) for restrictions to be placed on the use of lead ammunition in the UK were finally published. Used shotgun …

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Fully funded PhD available: The Impacts of Avian Influenza and Toxicants in Scottish Raptors raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025… via @RaptorPersUK

Fully funded PhD available: The Impacts of Avian Influenza and Toxicants in Scottish Raptors

The University of Edinburgh is seeking applications for a fully-funded PhD scholarship (4 years) on the subject of The Impacts of Avian Influenza and Toxicants in Scottish Raptors. SUMMARY This pro…

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