In April this year, I spent time in Rothiemurchus in the Cairngorms, watching Crested Tits in the Scots Pine canopy, a Merlin swooping low over the heather, and a pair of reintroduced Beavers tending ...

On Monday the news broke that a young satellite-tagged White-tailed Eagle had ‘disappeared’ in suspicious circumstances on a grouse shooting estate in the North York Moors National Park…

Following on from the publication of the RSPB’s latest report on the illegal killing of birds of prey in the UK (Patterns of Persecution, published last week), the BBC has released an eight m…

Press statement from North Yorkshire Police (1st June 2026): INVESTIGATION UNDERWAY AFTER DISAPPEARANCE OF EAGLE We are appealing for information after the disappearance of a white-tailed eagle. Th…

Twenty years ago a red squirrel was a rare sighting in Aberdeen.

A Scottish gamekeeper has pleaded guilty to killing a Goshawk after he battered it to death after it was caught inside a Crow cage trap on a shooting estate in Perthshire. At Perth Sheriff Court th…

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…

NatureScot has today announced a three-year General Licence restriction on Raeshaw Estate (and on neighbouring Watherston Wood, which is understood to be under separate management to Raeshaw), in r…

Press release from Police Scotland (9 February 2026) APPEAL AFTER GOLDEN EAGLE SHOT IN THE SCOTTISH BORDERS Wildlife officers are appealing to the public for information after a four-year-old golde…