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    Another poisoned eagle in Sussex

    https://raptorpersecutionuk.org/2022/04/27/white-tailed-eagle-poisoned-with-banned-pesticide-on-a-game-shooting-estate-in-west-sussex/ Another of the IoW white-tails killed with an already banned pesticide. Mebbe someone who lives in the area knows which shooting estate is hiding behind some...
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    More on disappearing hen harriers

    https://raptorpersecutionuk.org/2022/04/10/the-mystery-of-the-disappearing-hen-harrier-guest-blog-by-peak-district-raptor-monitoring-group/ Yet another one of those strange coincidences, which are clearly coincidences and don't involve any people related to shooting interests, in no way at all...
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    Increase in rodenticide in poisoning raptors

    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/apr/06/toxic-rat-poison-killing-growing-number-england-birds-of-prey I came across this while reading around the killing of eagles in Dorset. It seems pretty clear that brodifacoum is being used to poison raptors around shooting estates, unless, of...
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    Corncrakes in Harris and North Uist

    Dear friendly Hebridean birders, we are due to visit Harris and North Uist at the start of May (3 days in Harris and 4 in North Uist) and as part of this my decades long corn crake hunt will start again. I've heard the buggers for years in Co Cork, Skye, Lewis and in North Uist (including by...
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    Coul Links resurrected

    Yup, a new, but different version of the Coul Links golf course nonsense has appeared: https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/save-coul-links-protected-nature-from-destructive-deja-vu-golf-course-1 And this version highlights how low the standards are to which councillors are held - it...
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    The power of objecting

    In case anyone doubts that they should object to planning proposals they believe will harm their local wildlife, let me tell you a story... Last Tuesday we were made aware of a planning proposal for a 950 pitch caravan park, 400m away from our house, around some new-ish lakes on an old opencast...
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