Labour has called for grouse moors to be licensed to help end a wave of wildlife crime in northern England’s uplands. It follows the release of undercover footage by Wild Moors, taken in May, showing a goshawk being illegally trapped and killed on a grouse moor in North Yorkshire. Birds of prey […]

Wildlife campaigners are calling on the government to introduce mandatory licensing of grouse moors to eradicate illegal bird of prey persecution. It follows the grouse shooting season being overshadowed by a wave of wildlife crime as it opens today on the ‘Glorious Twelfth’. Birds of prey have been shot, poisoned and […]