Last month a local campaign group called Friends of the Dales launched a new campaign to raise awareness of illegal raptor persecution in the Yorkshire Dales National Park (see here).
This new campaign from the local community follows the recent collapse of the Yorkshire Dales National Park Bird of Prey Partnership (due to its failure to tackle crimes against birds of prey), and the news that since 2015, 29 Hen Harriers have gone ‘missing’ in suspicious circumstances and almost 40 other raptors have been found poisoned, trapped or shot in the Yorkshire Dales National Park since 2015, including Peregrines, Hen Harriers, Red Kites and Buzzards.
The Friends of the Dales group is planning a series of events as part of its campaign, and it kicked off with a webinar delivered by Kate Jennings, Head of Conservation and Species Policy at the RSPB, who gave a detailed overview about raptor persecution in the UK.
The webinar was recorded and is now available to watch on the Friends of the Dales YouTube channel here.
For more information about the Eyes on the Skies campaign, visit the Friends of the Dales website here.
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Just ban shooting of any kind unless it is clay pigeon and fine In millions ANYONE who flaunts or breaks the law. I’m sick of reading this never ending persecution and nothing done to protect what are supposed to be protected and endangered species of raptor and owl and indeed any wild bird.
Well said born n bred the thing that is frustrating is no one is banned fined cases are a sham because money and power rule spineless government old boys network no one brought to justice just goes round and round in a neverending circle of law breaking organisations seem to have little power.