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Ruth Tingay

@RuthTingay

16 days

I've written an opinion piece for The Scotsman about the potential impact of the new grouse moor licensing scheme.

The Scotsman

@TheScotsman

16 days

Why Scottish grouse moors will have to stop slaughtering golden eagles

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Ruth Tingay

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9 months

Chris Packham wins libel action against Fieldsports Channel Ltd & Andrew (Ben) O'Rourke via @RaptorPersUK

Chris Packham wins libel action against Fieldsports Channel Ltd & Andrew (Ben) O’Rourke

Press release from Leigh Day (6 November 2023) Chris Packham settles defamation claim with Fieldsports Channel after it admits death threat claims were untrue. Environmental campaigner and naturali…

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2 years

This animal abuser needs prosecuting under Animal Welfare Act and his cats removed. Hope @RSPCA_official will take action even if @metpoliceuk have refused. #zouma

Police will not investigate Kurt Zouma physically abusing a cat

Despite the police stance, the RSPCA suggested it would investigate the incident

www.independent.co.uk

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Ruth Tingay

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3 years

It's an honour & a privilege to call @ChrisGPackham my colleague and friend. This placid and dignified response to what was an appalling, terrifying attack is a measure of the man.

Chris Packham 'not intimidated' by fire attack

The wildlife expert says a suspected arson attack at his home will not stop his environmental campaigning.

www.bbc.co.uk

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4 years

What a day! A monumental decision from the Scottish Government to introduce grouse moor licensing without delay. The work to get to this stage has been gruelling & it's not yet finished, but this evening I'm toasting my friends & colleagues. #Glorious26th 🦅

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1 year

Phenomenal support for @ChrisGPackham Thank you all so much. This show of solidarity from the conservation community has been AMAZING! 💚🙏⚖️🦅🦊🦡🦫🐳🦎🐜🐝🦋 Case update coming soon. Meanwhile, the crowd funder is still live:

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2 years

@chrisloder @dorsetpolice "This" is a suspected wildlife crime, potentially a poisoning using a highly toxic substance that can kill humans as well as eagles. On your patch. Why wouldn't you want @dorsetpolice to spend time & resources on it, Mr Loder?

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2 years

Wild garlic frothing along the lane’s verges today, pungent & intoxicating, vibrant birdsong filling the surrounding ancient woodland. An ordinary journey turns into something special when you stop to notice. #MentalHealthMatters #MentalHealthWeek

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5 years

The grouse shooting industry can try & smear us as much as they like because while they're busy telling lies to discredit us, we're busy sat-tagging a shed-load more golden eagles like this one, 2 days ago. And if/when they go down, we'll get it all over the media. #NotGoingAway

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2 years

@chrisloder @dorsetpolice Would it have anything to do with local party donations from a prominent Dorset estate, perhaps?

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1 year

I think I'm supposed to be upset at being called a 'Mad munter'. They just don't get it, do they? Sorry mate, hurl all the misogynistic abuse you like, I'm still standing with @ChrisGPackham Crowdfunder is flying - thanks, everyone 💚 ⬇️⬇️⬇️

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8 months

I'd personally like to thank the depraved individual who killed this golden eagle because he's just given every MSP the motivation to vote through the grouse moor licensing Bill in the Scottish Parliament on Thursday. Nice one. #OnlyYourselvesToBlame #StopKillingRaptors

Raptor Persecution UK

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8 months

'Missing' golden eagle is from high profile South Scotland Golden Eagle Project. Press release from the project team ⬇️⬇️

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2 years

My entry for @ChrisGPackham #HedgerowOfTheYear competition ( #Hedgewreck category). If it wins, this farmer will get 500m of native, mixed species hedgerow to replace this desolate stump. Best prize ever! Competition details here:

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2 years

So much for the shooting industry's 'voluntary restraint'. And then to brag about it with a hideous trophy photo is just sickening. Our woodcock petition has reached 83,000 signatures. We need 100,000 to trigger a parliamentary debate:

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4 years

Happy birthday @ChrisGPackham A class act with whom its an enormous privilege to work x

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5 years

I'm struggling to understand your motives @NicolaSturgeon @strathearnrose @MairiGougeon You've given the DGS industry years of your patience & 1000s of opportunities to self-regulate. They're not just sticking up 2 fingers, they're spitting in your faces.

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2 years

So apparently this is "photographic evidence" of me committing wildlife crime & breaching the terms of a UK BTO ringing licence. Er...this photo is from a Govt-approved scientific study in Cambodia, 10 yrs ago! Another desperate smear from the game shooters. @CheshPolRural @_BTO

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5 years

Young golden eagle flying around Cairngorms National Park with illegal trap clamped to its leg. FFS @NicolaSturgeon @strathearnrose @MairiGougeon what is it going to take for you to protect these birds? ENOUGH OF THIS BARBARIC CRIMINALITY

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I usually try to be pretty measured when reporting these crimes but this time I'm fucking furious. Piss poor response from NYorks Police & this isn't the first time, or the last. Another case of police censorship to report on in NYorks then will lodge complaint with IOPC. Enough.

Raptor Persecution UK

@RaptorPersUK

2 years

Hen harrier chicks stamped to death in nest on grouse moor in Yorkshire Dales National Park. Why has it taken 6mths for police appeal? This is blatant censorship of raptor persecution crimes, designed to assist the grouse shooter's narrative. New blog⬇️

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2 years

@chrisloder "Killing our lambs and plaguing our farmers". You forgot to mention snatching our babies and harassing our nurseries. For God's sake, man, it's 2022 not 1822. And we wonder why raptor persecution is still rife in this country?!

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4 years

Beaver-killing season opens today in Scotland. But there's absolutely no need for it - there are landowners who say they'd welcome them if they were allowed to be translocated. Please sign this petition & ask Scot Gov to #Movedontkill

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5 years

On a day that was supposed to be all about @ChrisGPackham he made it all about everyone else. I hope our respect & admiration was felt behind that wall of modesty, even if we did take the piss a bit. X

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Ruth Tingay

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4 years

Car crash viewing for the grouse shooting industry tonight as @alextomo of @Channel4News exposes their arrogance with such ease. Kudos too, for the locals risking it all to stand up against the wildlife killers.

Channel 4 News re-visits the grouse moors of the North York Moors National Park

The illegal killing of birds of prey on the grouse moors of North Yorkshire was firmly back in the news headlines this evening with another excellent piece fronted by Alex Thomson of Channel 4 News…

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@RuthTingay

5 years

I'm completely baffled why these 3 intelligent, thoughtful, decent women have refused to comment on such barbarity. Clearly a political decision - but why? What do you gain from staying silent, @NicolaSturgeon @strathearnrose @MairiGougeon ?

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Ruth Tingay

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1 year

An extraordinary outpouring of love & support for @ChrisGPackham Thank you so very much to everyone who is standing with, and up for, Chris 💚🦅🦊🦡🦫🦋🐝🐜🦎🐳 Pls keep sharing ⬇️

Support Chris Packham's libel action against Fieldsports Channel Ltd

I'm a friend & work colleague of Chris Packham, raising funds to help support his libel action against Fieldsports Channel Ltd.

www.crowdjustice.com

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Ruth Tingay

@RuthTingay

4 years

POISONED SEA EAGLE found on grouse moor in Cairngorms National Park. There can be no coming back from this. The driven grouse shooting industry is finished.

Satellite-tagged white-tailed eagle found poisoned on grouse moor in Cairngorms National Park

A satellite-tagged white-tailed eagle has been found poisoned on a grouse moor in the Cairngorms National Park. This should be the tipping point. The Scottish Government simply cannot ignore this b…

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Ruth Tingay

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4 years

We've launched a petition today calling for an immediate ban on the shooting of #Badgers , licensed as part of DEFRA's grotesque badger cull. Your support will help put pressure on Govt to re-think. Meanwhile, our legal challenge continues.

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5 years

It's a kestrel, FFS. It's no threat to your grouse, pheasants, partridge, lambs, geese, ducks, dog, cat, children, cows, mother-in-law or whatever else excuse you can dream up. Sorry for swearing (not sorry) but it's a fucking kestrel.

Kestrel shot in North Yorkshire

A kestrel has been euthanised after being found shot in North Yorkshire. It’s a kestrel, FFS. You’d have to be a gun-toting psychopath to shoot one of these. Unsurprisingly, it’s …

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3 years

Not an award-winning photo but v special to me & @ChrisGPackham - this is one of the first golden eagles our team satellite-tagged in 2017. We've watched him wander around Scotland & now we know where he's settling down, hopefully to breed. 📷 @ScotRaptorStudy

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5 years

Overwhelmed by the support today. Thanks so much to everyone who came out & everyone who said hello. Proud to stand with these two guys, with all our speakers & with everyone else fighting for @WildJustice_org #LoveHenHarriers #HenHarrierDay2019 #HHDay2019

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1 year

Westminster fiddles (in every sense) while the grouse moors burn. Yesterday's view in the Peak District National Park. #ClimateEmergency

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5 years

Wow! Liverpool Exhibition Centre bans the Great British Shooting Show.

Exhibition Centre Liverpool

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Please see statement regarding the Great British Shooting Show.

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Ruth Tingay

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7 years

Hats off to @RichardBowler1 for his response to Countryside Alliance who wanted free use of his hare photo for their fundraising calendar.

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5 years

I'm just stunned at the speed that this has been achieved. A MASSSIVE THANK YOU to everyone who helped us. Credit due to @MarkAvery @ChrisGPackham who managed to persuade me it was a good idea to go again. (Doesn't mean you'll be right every time, but this time, ok, you were) X

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4 years

Man arrested as North Yorkshire Police investigate latest shooting of a hen harrier on a grouse moor. Forensic testing underway - I hope this will result in a charge. Well done @NYPRuralTF for throwing everything at it. #Yorkshire #stopkillinghenharriers

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1 year

Grouse shooting industry representatives call these 101 missing/killed hen harriers 'isolated incidents'. I call it widespread, systematic persecution by an industry that's out of control. #Inglorious12th #Glorious12th

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5 years

What an effort! These guys have been running across grouse moors in a Marathon for the Missing Harriers & have raised ~£9K for @WildJustice_org Amazing, amazing, amazing.

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4 years

BRILLIANT NEWS! Langholm Moor community buyout: 'impossible dream' set to come true. Goodbye knackered old grouse moor, hello Tarras Valley Nature Reserve. Very well done @LBuyout @langholmonline Huge congrats to Kevin & team.

Langholm Moor community buyout: ‘impossible dream’ set to come true

Press release from the Langholm Initiative, the team behind the campaign for a community buyout of former grouse moor Langholm Moor (2 November 2020). Community’s “impossible dream̶…

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Ruth Tingay

@RuthTingay

6 years

I see the latest propaganda offering from the @GiftofGrouse is claiming that 'grouse moors are nature reserves'. Yep, in the same way abbatoirs are animal sanctuaries. #WeHaveWildlife #WeKillWildlife #WeWantWildlife

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4 years

This isn't conservation, it's a gratuitous grotesque bloodbath. I'm supporting @AlisonJohnstone 's amendment to increase protection for Scotland's mountain hares.

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5 years

Petition to ban driven grouse shooting launched at tea-time. Passes 10,000 signatures in one evening. People are angry. Thanks for channeling it towards something constructive.

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4 years

@mmmmthinking There's never been a single successful prosecution for killing an eagle in Scotland. Ever. That's why these crimes continue. They know the chances of being caught & prosecuted are zero. And that's why @NicolaSturgeon needs to stop pissing around and bring in grouse moor reform.

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@RuthTingay

5 years

Out in London celebrating a DEFRA win with our amazing legal team this eve. Such a privilege to work with these bright stars.

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4 years

Last yr this poor hen harrier was found with an almost severed leg caught in barbaric & illegally-set trap on Leadhills Estate. No prosecution but a 3yr Gen Licence restriction was imposed. Now the estate has been given an individual licence. #NoDeterrent

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4 years

APPROX HALF of UK wild bird biomass in Aug is represented by non-native gamebirds, released for shooting. 61+ million pheasants & red-legged partridge released, every year. Regulation is long overdue.

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5 years

Two more satellite-tagged eagles 'disappear' on Scottish grouse moors. This will barely make the news today, that's how numb we've become to it.

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5 years

My kind of bird table! This camera trap photo was sent in yesterday & shows one of our satellite-tagged golden eagles in Scotland visiting a food dump with his Mum. #BigGardenBirdWatch

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5 years

It tells you everything about a political party when a candidate for the top job uses the promise of future opportunities for animal abuse as part of his election campaign.

Jeremy Hunt promises vote on repeal of foxhunting ban

Tory party leadership hopeful says he is against ban as bloodsport is our ‘heritage’

www.theguardian.com

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4 years

Grouse moor burning in Scotland is now BANNED as of tomorrow (7 April) as the shooting industry failed to exercise voluntary restraint. Emergency legislation received royal assent today.

Muirburn banned in Scotland from tomorrow as emergency legislation receives royal assent

The Coronavirus (Scotland) Bill, agreed by the Scottish Parliament last Wednesday, has today received royal assent and thus as of tomorrow (Tuesday 7th April 2020) becomes enacted. This emergency l…

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4 years

I'm fascinated, @DerbyshireRCT - you've got a dead buzzard next to bait, toxicol IDs the same poison on both. And you think the circumstances are 'inconclusive'? It's no wonder illegal raptor persecution continues if this is the police response.

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8 years

Northern harrier vs short-eared owl, New York State. Great photo from Jill Homcy.

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4 years

Autumn, 2 weeks apart.

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2 years

Change is coming in the #PeakDistrict National Park on National Trust moorland. It's long overdue, but what I heard from them today indicates significant progress & I'm confident they'll deliver. Details should be out soon. Well done @PeakDistrictNT 👏🦅

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5 years

It fascinates me that people will take legal challenges so they can kill protected species (e.g. buzzards, badgers) and yet when @WildJustice_org took one to protect wildlife we were accused of being 'extremists with dangerous agendas'. Funny old world.

NFU launches legal challenge over Derbyshire cull rejection - Farmers Weekly

The NFU has launched a judicial review challenging the government’s decision not to grant badger culling licences to control bovine TB in Derbyshire. In

www.fwi.co.uk

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2 years

Enormous gratitude & thanks to the team from @ukwildlifecrime & @PoliceScotland who went out in atrocious weather today to follow up on a report about one of our satellite-tagged eagles. There are some determined & committed wildlife cops about.

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5 years

"In 40 years working in wildlife management I have never seen so many protected species dead in such a small area". Welcome to the handiwork of Scottish gamekeeper Alan Wilson, convicted of multiple wildlife crimes. Sentencing in Aug. #BetterBeCustodial

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4 years

He's back again. One of our young satellite-tagged golden eagles stuffing his face at a deer carcass. Many thanks to the field researcher who's sending us these camera trap images. This eagle's tag data tell us he's alive but the photos add so much more to his story.

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1 year

Thank you to everyone who has donated to this appeal so far 💚 Your amazing generosity has raised over £7K on day one! 👏 If you stand in solidarity with @ChrisGPackham pls continue to share this link ⬇️ Thank you! 🙏🦅🦊🦡🦫🦋🐝🐜🦎🐳

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4 years

Hawthorn blossom. Looks incredible but smells rancid. Apparently it contains a chemical that's also found in rotting flesh, which explains why it was banned from medieval homes - considered to be unlucky as it reminded folk of the smell of death (Great Plague).

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2 years

@chrisloder Instead of demonising white-tailed eagles based on old wives tales, can I interest you in some actual scientific research we did on eagle diet in Scotland? More insightful than a newspaper article, I'd suggest.

Breeding season diets of sympatric White-tailed Eagles and Golden Eagles in Scotland: no evidence...

Capsule The breeding season diets of White-tailed Eagles and Golden Eagles in western Scotland were different, and there was no evidence of competition between the two species. Aim To test the hyp...

www.tandfonline.com

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4 years

VERY pleased to see this significant fine of £600,000 + costs for Bellway Homes after deliberately destroying a bat roost. Well done @metpoliceuk

Bellway housebuilders fined £600,000 for destroying bat roost in south London

Court hands firm largest ever wildlife crime fine after it admits demolishing site in Woolwich

www.theguardian.com

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5 years

Check out these guys, trolled by game shooting industry for running 200 km in 4 days(!) to raise awareness of hen harrier persecution. Pls consider a small donation to show your support for them & for @WildJustice_org work on hen harriers.

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5 years

Predator-hating gamekeepers drowning in a sea of self pity because SNH has refused to issue another Strathbraan raven cull licence, on the basis of there being no scientific evidence whatsoever to support such a cull. Sorry (not sorry) for my role in this.

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4 years

One of our young satellite-tagged eagles, ignoring Govt advice & heading for the Highlands.

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10 months

Heading in to London to join the #RestoreNatureNow rally with @ChrisGPackham & reps from many wildlife conservation orgs, calling out this Govt on its wilful blindness.

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6 years

More satellite tags ordered, Our field team is going to be very busy indeed this year. @ChrisGPackham @RaptorPersScot @LushTimesEN

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@NYorksPolice : "All the shooting investigations that we've got going on at the moment are involving gamekeepers on grouse moors". @alextomo : "All of them?" @NYorksPolice : "All of them" @alextomo : "Every single one?" @NYorksPolice : "That's right".

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2 years

Our latest @WildJustice_org legal challenge is against the water regulator @Ofwat for what we perceive to be its inaction on the massive discharge of raw sewage into our streams, rivers and seas. Chemical cocktails & shit? No thanks. Pls support us:

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For over 1yr an @innogy_uk employee (& grouse shooter) has been tweeting obscene abusive material about me. Innogy has now investigated, taken disciplinary action & say confident it will stop. Thank you. If it doesn't, I'll name him & report to police for harassment & stalking.

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9 months

My talk for the @ReviveCoalition conference this w/e. Yes, young eagles are STILL being killed on Scottish grouse moors, even now. And it’s nothing to do with wind farms (as I’ll show with satellite tag data).

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4 years

The outpouring of support for our latest @WildJustice_org crowdfunder has been a genuine surprise. That so many are willing to put their hard-earned ££ & their trust in the three of us, with £33k in just 2 days in these abnormal times, is a bit overwhelming tbh. Thank you so much

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Professor Werritty in his own words: "My advice to those estates which continue to indulge in persecuting raptors is, 'Clean up your act'". They won't listen, Alan, they've been getting away with it for 65 yrs since it first became illegal!

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"Those that make it in will rarely leave alive". An expert witness comments on the status of wildlife on Millden Estate in the Angus Glens.

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5 years

Check out these smiles! Wicken Fen roost this evening: FIVE hen harriers (2 sparkling males, 3 ringtails) and at least six marsh harriers & nobody with a gun in sight. Brilliant afternoon with @WildJustice_org lawyers.

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4 years

It's open season on Mountain hares from today, despite Scottish Parliament voting last month for full protected status. Instead, with a straight face, @GreenerScotland calls on grouse shooting industry to conduct voluntary restraint. Yes, seriously.

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A young hen harrier, again. In North Yorkshire, again. Inside a National Park, again. Near a grouse moor, again. This is the 9th hen harrier to 'disappear' since August. What is it about this pattern that you don't understand, @theresecoffey ?

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5 years

In Spain they send wildlife poisoners to jail, impose massive fines & ban them from hunting. In Scotland, we're repeatedly told "It won't be tolerated" but then nothing else happens except perhaps another 'review'. No wonder it continues! #springwatch

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9 months

The view from the stage as hundreds poured into Perth Concert Hall yesterday for @ReviveCoalition conference on grouse moor reform. The energy was palpable. A brilliant event, full of hope & a collective desire for change.

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Wow! A shotgun pellet is removed from the breast of a dead hen harrier yet @ScotGamekeepers falsely accuse @RSPBScotland @RSPB_Skydancer of "untruthful" reporting. Eh? And then @pressjournal @Its_Me_Kirsten publishes the SGA's libellous slur! Astonishing.

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2 years

Grouse shooting lobby quietly seething over proposed licensing scheme & say, with straight faces, "it is difficult to see why licensing is necessary". How about that for wilful blindness?! New blog ⬇️ @MairiMcAllan @lornaslater @MairiGougeon @markruskell

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We’ve had a busy morning at #SNP19 Lots of delegates wanting to learn about grouse moor reform & signing up to support @ReviveCoalition They’re horrified to hear raptor persecution still rampant in Scotland.

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5 years

Another criminal from the fieldsports world. Scott Milne shot 28 badgers with the intention of claiming they were part of authorised badger cull so he could get ££. His penalty? Suspended sentence & 150hrs unpaid work. Shockingly lenient.

Man shot 28 badgers and kept them in freezer near Bodmin

Scott Milne was planning to pretend the dead badgers were part of an authorised cull.

www.bbc.co.uk

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4 years

Evening light on the barley field poppies. I had to stop and look. #wildflowerhour

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4 years

Aha - 2019 hen harrier chick Apollo's survival suddenly makes sense - he left the UK grouse moors & cleared off to Portugal. Even that hazardous journey across the Bay of Biscay was a safer bet than staying at home, FFS.

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Well done to all the campaigners @onekindtweet & beyond. This has been a long time coming. History-makers!

Raptor Persecution UK

@RaptorPersUK

11 months

Scottish Government announces plans to ban snares! 6 week public consultation now open. Press release from animal welfare charity @onekindtweet & further details here ⬇️⬇️

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4 years

Learning to appreciate the small stuff. This carpet of Celandine lit up my walk yesterday. #wildflowerhour

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4 years

Good to see coverage of our missing golden eagle ‘Tom’ in The Times today. Amused to see my commentary cut pasted & attributed to ‘a spokesman for @RaptorPersScot ‘! Still, sexism aside, I’m delighted that MSM journalists are reading my blog.

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5 years

Shooting orgs say they'll provide training to members to help them understand raptor protection laws. Christ, how much training is required to understand it's illegal to kill birds of prey?

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3 years

Dismayed to find Red-legged partridge & pheasant release pens on Tresco, #Scilly . FFS. Some of the 60+ million released in UK each yr for shooting. Also found these 2 x dead Scilly shrews in vicinity. One on bottom left had clear 'peck' injury between scapula. #IslesofScilly

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@RuthTingay

5 years

Wicken Fen has been registered as UK's 'most species-rich area', with 9,300 spp recorded. What? And it's not a managed grouse moor? How can this be? Scurrilous fake news from the BBC!! (I'm kidding, obvs, well done @WickenFenNT top for wintering HH).

Wicken Fen is UK's most 'species-rich area'

The National Trust calls the fen on the Cambridgeshire-Suffolk border "a mosaic of different habitats".

www.bbc.co.uk

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1 year

Back in London today for final submissions in @ChrisGPackham libel case. 3 x defendants been giving evidence this week - the phrase, ‘Give them enough rope’ was on many people’s lips.

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3 years

It was a privilege to support mental health workshop for these high-achieving women last week. Topics incl imposter syndrome, boundaries, perfectionism, burn out & more. These traits common in conservation field. May hold more workshops if demand is there. DM to register interest

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5 years

I’m sorry @NicolaSturgeon @strathearnrose @MairiGougeon As much as I admire you as intelligent & successful female role models, I am no longer prepared to make excuses for you on this issue. This is obscene criminality & your failure to act decisively is why this continues.

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4 years

You know, if you're going to profess to love a bird of prey, it helps your credibility if you're able to ID it. Otherwise it looks like you're pretending. Newsflash for @BASCnews this isn't a merlin & merlin populations in decline on some grouse moors.

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5 years

What a contrast in the Peak District this weekend. Limestone woods & slopes in the White Peak, & the grotesque grouse moors of the Dark Peak, brooding like a malignant tumour inside this National Park.

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10 months

Such an impressive bunch at today’s #RestoreNatureNow rally in London. Thank you @ChrisGPackham & team for providing the opportunity for us all to unite. Powerful stuff.

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4 years

Support for our campaign work can be found in the most unexpected quarters. I bloody love it. Look at this from the cartoonist at the Yorkshire Post. Thanks @GraemeBandeira for standing up and being counted.

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Ruth Tingay

@RuthTingay

3 years

If you had to ask @ChrisGPackham which he'd prefer - a CBE for services to conservation or the starring role in a Viz comic strip parodying Scooby Doo & @BBCSpringwatch I reckon I know which one he'd take. But he doesn't have to choose, he's got both! #Legend

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4 years

It's always rewarding when mainstream media picks up and runs with a blog you've written, this time on hen harrier persecution. Thks @alistairkgrant for your interest.

Concerns over dozens of hen harriers ‘missing’ or killed since 2018

By Alistair Grant

www.heraldscotland.com

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5 years

The sooner Dr Coffey is relieved of her duty as Wildlife Minister and is replaced by someone who gives just the slightest, tiniest shit, the better.

Responses to hen harrier satellite tag paper: Wildlife Minister Dr Therese Coffey

The publication of the hen harrier satellite tag paper on Tuesday (here) that provided compelling evidence to highlight, yet again, the link between grouse moors and the illegal killing of hen harr…

raptorpersecutionuk.org

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