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Scottish Raptor Study Group
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‘Persistent intimidation’: activists facing abuse from grouse shooting industry
Conservationists working to protect rare birds of prey claim they are being abused online and intimidated in the field.
Birds of prey ‘in danger’ during coronavirus lockdown
Thousands of sites used by birds of prey will go unmonitored for the first time in almost two decades due to the coronavirus crisis, prompting fears that more birds will be illegally killed.
Ewing backs fox control with hounds in public forests
Foxes have been chased by hounds and shot in public forests after interventions by the rural economy minister, Fergus Ewing, backing shooters.
Buzzard stamped to death – but case against landowner dropped
Fresh concerns about Scottish Government’s failure to tackle wildlife crime after the collapse of legal action against landowner.
