• 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...
  • Peregrine poisoned in Peak District National Park
    Yet another bird of prey illegally killed during lockdown 2020 The RSPB and National Trust are calling for urgent action to end the illegal killing of birds of prey A peregrine falcon, which...
  • Two owls found shot in Peak District
    This is the latest in a catalogue of crimes against birds of prey, which is blackening the National Park’s reputation Police are on the trail after two owls were found shot within the Peak District...
  • Raptor Persecution in the Peak District National Park
    Mark Thomas of RSPB Investigations is one of the authors of a new paper published today (28 April 2018) in the journal British Birds. Read his account of what the results of this paper mean to him, and...