• Gamekeeper given community order for pesticide and firearms offences
    A part-time gamekeeper has been given a community order and ordered to pay £200 costs, having previously pleaded guilty to six charges in relation to pesticide and firearms offences. Police searching...
  • Lowland shoots and poison – a toxic situation
    By Tom Grose, RSPB Investigations Officer On 16 February 2023, Dorset gamekeeper Paul Allen received a 15 week prison sentence (suspended for 12 months) at Weymouth Magistrates Court, Dorset after pleading...
  • 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...
  • Two birds of prey illegally shot
    We have just issued the following press release: Police and the RSPB are investigating the illegal killing of two protected wild birds of prey. A red kite was found dead in a field in Wigmore, Herefordshire...
  • Marsh harrier found illegally shot
    Locals and conservationists are raising the alarm after a rare and protected bird of prey was found shot near Barton-Upon-Humber, North Lincolnshire. The bird – a marsh harrier – was discovered by...