• RSPB produces raptor crime enforcement guide
    Plenty has changed over the past year, but raptor persecution sadly remains a problem that won’t go away. Last spring the RSPB reported on the ‘ surge ’ in cases during the first lockdown, and while the...
  • Unhappy Valley: raptor crime in Pateley Bridge
    North Yorkshire regularly emerges as the worst county in England for the illegal killing of birds of prey. In the past seven years, RSPB data shows that more protected raptors like red kites and buzzards...
  • Putting bird crime on the map
    Today the RSPB has released further data revealing more clearly than ever where the raptor persecution blackspots in the UK occur. Map 2, showing raptor persecution blackspots Readers of this blog...
  • What the RSPB has done to combat raptor persecution
    The RSPB is part of a Raptor Persecution Priority Delivery Group (RPPDG), chaired by Chief Superintendent Nick Lyall. All partners in the group have been encouraged to submit a six-month return, highlighting...
  • Operation Owl: Fighting raptor crime in North Yorkshire
    Operation Owl assembles in Helmsley, North Yorkshire RSPB staff took arms against the ongoing problem of raptor persecution in North Yorkshire last weekend as our Investigations team joined North...