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A crooked concoction: the RSPB's insidious smear campaign against a rural community

A crooked concoction: the @rspb.bsky.social RSPB's smear campaign that targeted a rural community. Residents of a beauty spot were victims of collective punishment following an anti-shooting campaign designed to divide them. Lazy media lapped up the story aborourke.substack.com/p/a-crooked-...

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Residents of a northern England beauty spot were victims of collective punishment when the charity launched an anti-shooting campaign designed to divide them. Lazy media lapped up the story.

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In 1995, a raptor breeder was imprisoned based on a DNA test developed by the RSPB (@rspb.bsky.social) that was scrapped a few years later because it didn't work. The lab that made it was run by an RSPB trustee and the DoE told the charity not to use it www.youtube.com/watch?v=1r6C...

RSPB Uncovered: The Missing 'Birdcrime' Files, chapter 8: The future of law enforcement

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The @rspb.bsky.social's big lie: persecution by gamekeepers is driving declines in hen harriers and the species is on the edge of extinction. So why have there been identical declines in hen harriers across Europe, yet they are blamed on environmental factors www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUgJ...

RSPB Uncovered: The Missing 'Birdcrime' Files, chapter 7: Hen harrier daze

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In 2010, the @rspb.bsky.social accused a gamekeeper of using an illegal trap to catch birds of prey. Investigator Mark Thomas claimed hidden camera footage proved it. But the keeper is only on camera for 10 seconds out of 40 minutes and is doing nothing illegal www.youtube.com/watch?v=rO57...

RSPB Uncovered: The Missing 'Birdcrime' Files, chapter 5-2: video evidence compilation

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'The case that never was' explains how the @rspb.bsky.social tried to frame a gamekeeper for the killing of a peregrine falcon. The bird was kept in a freezer then planted near a grousemoor. RSPB claimed it had been shot dead there, contrary to the postmortem findings www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXf-...

RSPB Uncovered: The Missing 'Birdcrime' Files, chapter 5-1: The Frozen Falcon