Gamekeepers of Great Britain may be secretly shooting down endangered hen harriers over their red grouse hunting grounds. Wildlife crime is a huge challenge for conservationists to observe and ...

A conflict between those working to conserve numbers of hen harriers and those maintaining commercial shooting of red grouse in the English uplands has existed for decades with little sign of progress ...

A new study reveals that hen harriers are being killed at an alarming rate on U.K. grouse moors. Scientists found that gamekeepers are eliminating these birds, which are on the verge of extinction in ...

1. Birds of prey and driven-grouse shooting are at the centre of a long-standing human—wildlife conflict. Hen harrier predation can reduce grouse shooting bags, limit grouse populations and cause ...

The news the young female bird of prey "Annie", who was satellite tagged as a chick, was illegally killed in Scotland, is likely to worsen the dispute between conservationists and the shooting ...

In the 1960s, British aviation company Hawker Siddeley developed an innovative jet capable of vertical takeoffs and landings. This formidable war craft was dubbed the Harrier. Its name was inspired by ...

The disappearance of a protected hen harrier in the Yorkshire Dales highlights the need for grouse shooting to be licensed, campaigners say. Did you know with a Digital subscription to Yorkshire Post, ...

The warden at the reserve has described the birds’ disappearance as a “devastating loss”, and the police said as a result the nests the birds were servicing have both failed - the result being that ...

The numbers of breeding hen harriers, one of England’s rarest birds and a protected species, dropped sharply in the late 1990s and early 2000s. To better understand why hen harriers were vanishing, ...

The disappearance of a protected hen harrier in the Yorkshire Dales highlights the need for grouse shooting to be licensed, campaigners say. The case of female bird Sita, who went missing while ...