Friends of the Dales is looking for a creative and ambitious Communications and Marketing Officer to lead its communications and help more people discover, value and protect the Yorkshire Dales.…

From Jonathan Riley, Chair, Friends of the Dales, Gargrave, North Yorkshire, UK

Friends of the Dales is looking for a creative and ambitious Communications and Marketing Officer to lead its communications and help more people discover, value and protect the Yorkshire Dales. Apply...

Exclusive: England ‘desperately unprepared’ for effects of crisis including water shortages and heatwaves

Yorkshire Dales environmental campaigning charity announces the appointment of Sophie Amos as its new Executive Director.

Kestrel-shaped kites are taking flight to help raise awareness of bird of prey persecution.

Press release from RSPB (24 June 2026): RARE HEN HARRIER VANISHES IN WELSH ‘BERMUDA TRIANGLE’ – WITH SATELLITE TAG CUT FROM ITS BODY North Wales Police, RSPB and the National Trus…

A few weeks ago I presented a webinar for the Yorkshire-based charity, Friends of the Dales, as part of its Eyes to the Skies campaign, which launched last year to raise awareness about the illegal…

YouTube video by Friends of the Dales

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...

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...

The evidence in the RSPB's Patterns of Persecution report 2026 points to an unequivocable link between birds of prey crime and land managed for gamebird shooting.

Friends of the Dales, Gargrave, North Yorkshire, with regular travel across the Yorkshire Dales, £50,000 pa

Applications are now open for an outstanding Executive Director to lead our next chapter.

Campaign group, Friends of the Dales, is fighting to save Yorkshire’s birds of prey from persecution

Following the welcome news last week that Defra intends to explore options for the introduction of a licensing scheme for ALL gamebird shooting in England, including Red Grouse, as well as the annu…

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...

Following the announcement from Defra in July 2025 that the Government aimed to introduce legislation by the summer of 2026 to ban the sale and use of toxic lead ammunition for ‘live quarry s…

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…

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...

A new petition has been launched calling on the UK Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Mary Creagh MP) to bring in legal reform to help stop the illegal persecution of birds of prey. The petiti…

YouTube video by Friends of the Dales

The news yesterday was all about the conviction and sentencing of Head Gamekeeper Racster Dingwall for his part in a conspiracy to kill Hen Harriers at a roost on the Conistone & Grassington Es…

BREAKING NEWS… Further to this morning’s blog, gamekeeper Racster Dingwall has pleaded guilty to two charges, including conspiracy to kill a Hen Harrier on a grouse moor on the Coniston…

Last year, charity Friends of the Dales launched a new campaign calling for an end to the criminal killing of birds of prey in the Yorkshire Dales National Park. The Eyes on the Skies campaign, whi…

The charity Hen Harrier Action has launched its annual Xmas fundraising appeal, this year with a target of £15K to purchase five satellite tags to be fitted to Hen Harrier chicks in 2026. As you&#8…

Missed a talk? All our past talks can be viewed via our YouTube channel. Online Talk: Protecting Birds of Prey – Inside the Work of UK Wildlife Crime Policing Tuesday 27 January, 5:30pm – 7:00pm Join ...

Press release from independent group, Wildlife Poisoning Research UK, 15th November 2025. WHERE THE POISONED BODIES WERE FOUND! Many people probably imagine that the use of poisons to kill protecte…

Missed a talk? All our past talks can be viewed via our YouTube channel. Online Talk: Protecting Birds of Prey – Inside the Work of UK Wildlife Crime Policing Tuesday 27 January, 5:30pm – 7:00pm Join ...