Last month I welcomed the decision by the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority to terminate the so-called ‘Bird of Prey Partnership’, after its abject failure over five years to tackle the ongoing illegal killing of birds of prey on grouse moors within the National Park and neighbouring Nidderdale (see here).
One of the original ‘partners’, the Northern England Raptor Forum (NERF), which represents raptor fieldworkers who monitor bird of prey populations and are often in the frontline of discovering persecution crimes, has published a statement also welcoming the end of the ‘partnership’.
It’s well worth a read if you want an insight into why these so-called ‘partnerships’ repeatedly fail.
You can read the NERF statement here.
Raptor Persecution UK 