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Alan Stewart
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Retired Tayside Police and National Wildlife Crime Unit officer. Author of 10 books on wildlife, wildlife crime and of http://wildlifedetective.wordpress.com
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news.npcc.police.uk/releases/cra... This can only improve the investigation and enforcement of rural and wildlife crime, but still needs better wildlife legislation in England and Wales.
Crackdown on OCGs targeting UK's farms and countryside
Britain’s countryside set to benefit from new strategy to tackle the growing threat posed by organised crime. New data analytics and technology to be put at centre of fightback against rural and wildl...
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November 26, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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www.devonlive.com/news/devon-n... "He speaks for the majority of the country whose voices wouldn’t count in the same way.”
Huge support for Chris Packham after Devon hunt row
Campaigner sparks fierce debate after wading into Tiverton's Boxing Day hunt controversy
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November 24, 2025 at 6:11 AM
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New post on my blog at wildlifedetective.wordpress.com Book Review - Wild Edinburgh by Keith Broomfield
November 17, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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Hen Harrier Susie, whose chicks were stamped to death on a Yorkshire Dales grouse moor in 2022, has been found dead on a N Pennines grouse moor with gunshot injuries.

18+ months of silence about this crime from the police & Natural England.

#RaptorResearch

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Hen Harrier ‘Susie’, whose chicks were stamped to death in 2022, has been found dead on a North Pennines grouse moor with gunshot injuries
If ever there was an example demonstrating the high level of persecution faced by Hen Harriers on UK grouse moors, the lack of consequences for the offenders, and the lack of justice for the victim…
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November 14, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Good work by Cumbria Police assisted by the UK National Wildlife Crime Unit. High time hunting foxes, deer and hares with hounds was properly banned.
Six arrested in Ambleside illegal fox-hunting investigation
Cumbria Police says it plans to make more arrests as it continues to investigate.
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November 14, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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Krill, Baby, Krill: The corporations profiting from plundering Antarctica....

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Krill, Baby, Krill: The corporations profiting from plundering Antarctica • Changing Markets
This report investigates the main culprits responsible for the plundering of the cornerstone of the Antarctic food web: krill.
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November 1, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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What a horrible individual. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Man jailed for torturing kitten to death and abusing partner in Alloa
Lewis Aitken abused his partner over four months before killing a kitten in front of her at her home in Alloa.
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October 30, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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Little ringed plovers, Perthshire. Bird of the day - pairs of the same bird.
October 28, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Farage: epic grifter
October 27, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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Herons resting in a ploughed field.
October 27, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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Not just fox hunting of course, legislation needs to properly ban stag hunting and hunting hares with dog packs. morningstaronline.co.uk/article/seni...
Senior cops say laws on hunting with hounds are ‘not fit for purpose’
THE law on hunting with hounds is “not fit for purpose,” senior police officers have told MPs, with “loophole after loophole” continuing to frustrate the prosecution of illegal hunts.Chief Superintend...
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October 23, 2025 at 5:07 AM
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If this is one family then whooper swans seem to have had a good breeding season in Iceland this year. There were more elsewhere on this Perthshire loch, with a high proportion of cygnets.
October 22, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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An excellent new initiative led by a local community that is sick to the back teeth of illegal raptor persecution inside this National Park.

Bravo, @friendsofthedales.bsky.social

#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime

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‘Eyes on the Skies’ – new campaign to raise awareness of raptor persecution in the Yorkshire Dales National Park
Following the recent collapse of the Yorkshire Dales National Park Bird of Prey Partnership (due to its failure to tackle crimes against birds of prey), and the news that since 2015, 29 Hen Harrier…
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October 8, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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What they won't show you on the 'National Trail Hunting Day' on October 10th..
October 8, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Good investigation and excellent conviction. Always good when the tools of criminals are removed from them. www.essex.police.uk/news/essex/n...
Broxted: Dogs ban for two south Essex men after hare coursing investigation
They were arrested by officers from Uttlesford Neighbourhood Policing Team and our Rural Engagement Team following reports from the public
www.essex.police.uk
October 8, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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Two not quite identical brown hares stand to attention. Interesting to spot the subtle differences.
October 6, 2025 at 5:22 AM
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Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
October 5, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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29 'missing' Hen Harriers & nearly 40 birds of prey poisoned, trapped or shot in Yorkshire Dales National Park since 2015.

Not so much a National Park - more of a National Disgrace.

#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime #Ornithology #Yorkshire

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29 ‘missing’ Hen Harriers & nearly 40 birds of prey poisoned, trapped or shot in Yorkshire Dales National Park since 2015
Media attention has been drawn to the Yorkshire Dales National Park this week, following the RSPB’s press release on the suspicious disappearance of a satellite-tagged Hen Harrier named &#821…
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October 4, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Natural England confirms ongoing & relentless illegal persecution is reason why Hen Harriers are still rare in England.

#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime #Ornithology

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Hardly any Hen Harrier nesting attempts on English grouse moors for second year running
Natural England has finally got around to publishing the data for the 2025 Hen Harrier breeding season, which demonstrate very clear differences between areas managed for conservation and those man…
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October 2, 2025 at 5:07 AM
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October 2, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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This consultation is an opportunity to put pressure on the HSE to restrict the use of these dangerous toxins. Consultation closes Tues 30 Sept 2025 - please take part!

#RaptorResearch #Ornithology

raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/09/28/n...
New consultation on Second Generation Anticoagulant Rodenticides (SGARs): your opportunity to tell the HSE how damaging these are to raptors & other wildlife
In November last year, conservation campaign group Wild Justice published a report (Collateral Damage) highlighting shockingly high levels of rodenticides (rat poisons) found in Buzzards and Red Ki…
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September 28, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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This is an interesting move.

NB: Comments are turned off as criminal proceedings are live ⚖️

#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime #UKBirding

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Trial of 87-year-old man accused of 11 offences relating to raptor persecution is put on hold as defence applies for Judicial Review of judge’s ruling
The trial of an 87-year-old man, accused of multiple offences linked to alleged raptor persecution, has been put on hold after his defence lawyer told the court he intends to apply for Judicial Rev…
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September 26, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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More info on why the court judged the RSPB's covert video evidence to be admissible in this important case ⚖️

NB: Comments turned off as legal proceedings are live.

#RaptorResearch #Ornithology #WildlifeCrime

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More detail on court ruling accepting admissibility of RSPB’s covert surveillance in prosecution of gamekeeper accused of conspiracy to kill a Hen Harrier
Earlier this month a judge ruled that covert video surveillance obtained by the RSPB is admissible evidence in the prosecution of gamekeeper Racster Dingwall, who has been charged in relation to th…
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September 25, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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Man convicted after being reported to the police for encouraging his dog to enter badger setts. www.eastlothiancourier.com/news/2548352...
Man caught encouraging dog into badger sett by local land owner
A GIFFORD man was caught encouraging his dog to enter a live badger sett after a private land owner set up a wildlife camera.
www.eastlothiancourier.com
September 22, 2025 at 5:35 AM
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Rural thieves sentenced www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Seven sentenced for rural farm thefts worth millions
Equipment with a value of up to £10m were taken from farms in Shropshire and Wales.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 17, 2025 at 4:51 AM