• 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...
  • Red kite poisoned in Nidderdale
    Today we have issued this press release regarding a red kite found poisoned in Nidderdale: A red kite in flight, c Tim Melling North Yorkshire Police and the RSPB are appealing for information after...
  • 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...
  • Buzzard found shot and poisoned in East Yorkshire
    Some birds are devastatingly unlucky. Today (20/2/2019) Humberside Police issued a press release about a dead buzzard found poisoned in the East Riding of Yorkshire. The bird also had a nasty head...