Wedged between the Mar Dyke Valley and Lakeside Retail Park, the former Arena Essex Raceway is not your usual wildlife haven. Where once stock cars and speedway bikes lined up to cross the fini...

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…

For anyone who still wants to pretend that the grouse shooting industry isn’t responsible for the systematic extermination of Hen Harriers on grouse moors across the UK, here’s the latest catalogue…

Several familiar gull species have suffered major population declines over the last 20 years, with wintering numbers across the UK dropping from almost four million birds

New proposals to restrict recreational shooting of threatened wild birds

Further to this morning’s blog (here), Natural England has now formally confirmed its tighter restrictions on the release of non-native Pheasants and Partridges on, or within 500m, of Special…

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…

It was always going to happen: the first real big twitch of 2026.  Killdeer has been a bird I've wanted to see for some time and I had endur...

The illegal laundering of wild UK Peregrines for falconers in the Middle East has received wide media coverage in recent years. A police-led multi-agency operation named Operation Tantallon, which …