Today is our 4th birthday!
It’s been another strong year and our audience continues to grow, as this graph showing our yearly blog hits shows:
The top ten most viewed blog posts over the last year are:
1. Natural England issues licence to destroy buzzard eggs and nests to protect pheasants (see here)
2. The life, and death, of golden eagle Fearnan (see here)
3. Council leader calls for ‘open season’ on hen harriers (see here)
4. Significant haul of poisoned baits found on Leadhills Estate (see here)
5. Police investigate alleged destruction of sea eagle nest on Scottish grouse moor (see here)
6. Golden eagle found poisoned on Angus grouse moor (see here)
7. The gruesome fate of mountain hares on Scottish grouse moors (see here)
8. Farmers taking aim at sea eagles, again (see here)
9. Buzzards trapped and beaten to death with a stick: gamekeeper convicted (see here)
10. New hen harrier ‘initiative’ is outrageous (see here)
Year 5 here we come. Thanks for your continued support.
Raptor Persecution UK 
Congratulations on four years of sterling work. More power to your elbow!
[Ed: thank you!]
Happy birthday and keep up the brilliant work and information please! Ali
[Ed: thank you]
Very well done for highlighting the criminality in our countryside and for giving us a forum to voice our views.
Happy birthday to all concerned with Raptor persecution Scotland.
[Ed: cheers Chris]
Reblogged this on Sherlockian's Blog.
More power to your elbow! Keep up the good work.
[Ed: thank you]
Well done on 4 years of good work on behalf of all Raptors. It would be nice to be able to say your work is over but thats not going to happen soon, so here’s to an ongoing fight against all persecution, keep up your good work. Slainte.
[Ed: slainte!]
happy fourth birthday, well done guys your doing a brilliant job. long way to go but in a better position than we were four years ago. we’ll never eradicate it totally but at least now we can consistantly shame face the lying bastards who say its only a minority of estates
[Ed: Thanks Merlin]
Happy Birthday!..Id like to say ..and many of them..but Im sure you know what I mean!..738,000 hits is seriously impressive…lets go for the million next year!
[Ed: Thanks Dave….1 million would be great!]
Fair play to all concerned for shining a light into dark corners!!
[Ed: Cheers Jimmy]
Excellent work RPS, keep it up.
[Ed: Thank you]
Happy birthday! Well done and keep up the good work. Very many thanks too for all the support you provided to the “Licencing E-petition” (now closed ). I guess there’ll be other challenges to address in the future for which every success!! One thing for sure , if the raptors themselves had a vote, you’d be getting one hell of a thumbs up! John.
[Ed: thanks John]
Keep up the excellent work! Andy
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Many congratulations – hope RPS continues to grows exponentially year on year so that it’s an even louder voice in the battles to come
[Ed: thank you]
Happy birthday to you!
Congratulations to all at RPS for continuing to inform us of the truth and open people’s eyes to the reality of this problem. Hey, if we can’t save one of Britain’s most protected wildlife species then what hope for the rest?
It was you that originally inspired us at Project Raptor to actively take on this subject. It was clear from the information that you were producing on your blog that this problem was very serious, not least when it was becoming worryingly obvious that the Scottish Government were attempting to actually down play this problem, even going so far as to release misleading public statements, declaring that levels of raptor persecution was “at an all time low” or had “significantly dropped” during a particular year.
Today we see the momentum building on this issue and now people who genuinely care about wildlife protection, who have seen the truth and have had enough, are beginning to fight back and take an active role in tackling this problem. They are signing petitions, writing to MSP’s, MP’s and Government. They are educating other people over social media about this issue too and even beginning to become active in the field, learning what to look out for in relation to incidents of raptor persecution and who to report it to.
The criminals, who have for decades been unlawfully slaughtering birds of prey in remote areas of our countryside, are at last beginning to look over their shoulders, aware that the decent side of society are starting to look carefully at what they are doing and becoming stronger and more vocal every day. We can’t ignore the fact that deterrents against these criminals continue to be weak and when an incident of raptor persecution is uncovered, action is far too little and almost always too late, but we even see a little change here too in some pockets of the country. We live in hope.
Keep up the great work RPS. Knowledge is power. Thank you for helping to give the people the power and long may it last.
[Ed: Thanks Project Raptor]
Happy birthday & well done for all the good work that you do!
[Ed: Thank you!]