POISONING UNLIMITED

 POISONINGS UNLIMITED

This blog is about the intentional use of banned poisons to destroy wildlife on estates where their aim is to provide birds, specifically reared, for the purpose of being blasted out of the skies by toxic lead. It’s all in the name of sport, of course, and all for fun! I don’t think so. 

This is a problem that we have had for centuries where control of OUR  lands are controlled by the FEW. Poisoning, trapping and killing of anything (just look at what can be killed legally by the grant of General Licences) has been acceptable for far too long. It’s in the mind, the mindset to kill, and that is what we have to get changed.

It’s not a UK problem and here in Spain there has been a conviction when a poisoned carcass was left and Griffon Vultures feasted and died. The financial penalty was large and with a form of imprisonment imposed. 

I accept that even draconian sentences will not be the answer, but can be part of it. There are many of us who intensely dislike the unnecessary death of beautiful animals that belong to us; to everyone and not to a very small percentage of people. The killers need to be stopped.

This is the first part of a post from Raptor Persecution UK

In March this year, a golden eagle was found dead, next to a poisoned hare bait, on a grouse moor on Invercauld Estate in the Cairngorms National Park. Toxicology results showed the eagle had been illegally poisoned with a banned pesticide. Police Scotland conducted a multi-agency search, under warrant, of various properties on Invercauld Estate […]

I don’t need to say anymore because you can read it in full by going to their post of 1st July. I have followed their site for years with a great deal of sadness and frustration.

I make the following points;

1. The Invercauld  Estate is in The Cairngorms National Park. So, its there for the nation is it but there are ‘grouse moors’ in there controlled by estate owners. That cannot be in the public interest?

2.   A Golden Eagle - a protected bird of prey - was found dead and the         toxicology report was an illegal poison.

3. Next to the corpse was a dead Mountain Hare used as a poisoned bait.

4. That’s two dead animals - two crimes committed - by poison

5. A banned pesticide was found in both. That’s another offence.

The targeting by leaving poison bait is bad enough but what else can ingest to control away and die. It’s insidious. I hate it. More to follow I fear.