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Richard Hoskin

@thirlbybirder

Keen birder, wildlife and conservation enthusiast in and around the North Yorkshire Moors. Raptor field worker.

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Help Stop the Criminal Killing of Birds of Prey Despite more than 70 years of full legal protection, raptor persecution remains a serious and persistent wildlife crime. The Yorkshire Dales is one of the UK’s worst-affected areas, with 152 confirmed...

I just signed a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social petition: Help Stop the Criminal Killing of Birds of Prey. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/he...

19.02.2026 19:05 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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BBC rejects Scottish Gamekeepers Association’s complaint about programme that linked raptor persecution to land managed for gamebird shooting Last November the BBC aired an episode of Highland Cops (Series 2, Episode 4) that featured a Police Scotland Wildlife Crime Officer, PC Dan Sutherland, investigating the suspicious disappearance o…

The SGA claimed the programme caused "unfair reputation [sic] damage".

Nope, reputational damage is not being caused by the BBC reporting the evidence, it's being caused by criminal gamekeepers who continue to kill birds of prey.

#RaptorResearch

raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/02/17/b...

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Petition to ban possession of dangerous, raptor-killing pesticides in Northern Ireland approaches deadline: please sign Your help is needed to ensure a petition, calling for a ban on the possession of dangerous, raptor-killing pesticides in Northern Ireland, passes the target of 50,000 signatures before next week. T…

50,000 signatures will make an impression on the decision-making politicians (petition currently has 46,206 sigs).

Can we get it to 50,000 by next week? Pls sign! β˜ οΈπŸ¦…πŸ™

#RaptorResearch #Ornithology #WildlifeCrime #BritishEcologists

raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/02/13/p...

13.02.2025 08:58 πŸ‘ 46 πŸ” 37 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1
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Help make lead history Lead has been poisoning our wildlife and communities for decades – but now we have a chance to turn things around. With a crucial review into lead ammunition finally at an end, will you join me in c...

Lead has been poisoning our wildlife and communities for decades – but now we have a chance to turn things around.

With a crucial review into lead ammunition finally at an end, will you join me in calling on @SteveReedMP to help make lead history?

act.wwt.org.uk/page/160992/...

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