• Reflections on a poisoning
    By Tom Grose, RSPB Investigations Officer One of the buzzards found illegally killed at a pheasant shoot in Norfolk On 5 October 2022 gamekeeper Matthew Stroud was convicted of a litany of offences...
  • Stopping illegal poisoning – just what will it take?
    Today another conviction at court for the illegal keeping of pesticides (along with firearms offences) once again highlights the problems of trying to establish who was actually responsible for the poisoning...
  • Gamekeeper fined for pesticide offences after illegally killed birds of prey found on pheasant shooting estate
    A gamekeeper has been fined for pesticide offences after a shot buzzard, a poisoned red kite, a poison bait and banned pesticides were found on a pheasant shooting estate in Llanarmon Dyffryn Ceiriog...
  • Poisoned raven found in Peak District National Park
    The countryside is somewhere everyone should be able to enjoy. Getting outdoors is good for our health and wellbeing, and connects us with nature – a connection we need to hang on to more than ever these...
  • Buzzard poisoned in Peak District National Park
    We have just issued the following press release: A protected bird of prey has been illegally poisoned in one of the UK’s worst raptor persecution blackspots. In April 2019 a member of the public...