• 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...
  • Peregrine illegally poisoned in Barnsley
    The RSPB has just issued the following press release: South Yorkshire Police and the RSPB are appealing for information regarding the poisoning of a young peregrine falcon found on the outskirts of...
  • 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...
  • 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...