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Good morning! Today’s newsletter brings you the final three of a series of a dozen blogs about raptor persecution and its strong links to the driven grouse shooting industry. We're also asking you to sign another petition relating to rodenticides in Northern Ireland. Over 65,000 of you have now signed our petition calling for a ban on driven grouse shooting. Thank you. We need less than 200 names to hit 66,000, which is two-thirds of our target of 100k - the number we need to trigger a government debate on the issue. Since our last newsletter we’ve been busy. Chris, Ruth and some of our team, along with a very special guest, have been working on a project we think you'll enjoy which aims to raise awareness of our petition to ban driven grouse shooting – more on this soon. How low will they go? For now, we’ll share with you last three of our dozen blogs documenting examples of the persecution of raptors on, or close to, driven grouse moors. We’ve put together this series to highlight the lengths the criminals within the industry will go to in order to illegally kill birds of prey. NEW: A red herring (Hen Harrier) - click here. NEW: An unfair advantage - click here. NEW: Caught in the act (Short-eared Owl) - click here. A barbaric crime (Peregrine Falcon) – click here. Under the boot (Hen Harrier) – click here. A toxic environment – click here. Nowhere is safe (Golden Eagle and White-tailed Eagle) - click here. An ambush (Hen Harrier) - click here. A double whammy (Red Kite) - click here. Shooting a sleeping beauty (Golden Eagle) - click here. The indiscriminate persecutors (Merlin) - click here. Faking it: death by decoy (Hen Harrier) - click here. Other blogs: For a simple introduction to the issue, read What driven grouse shooting is - and why we want it banned: - click here. For information on how incidents like those detailed above impact the population dynamics of birds of prey, click here for Golden Eagles, here for Peregrine Falcons and here for Hen Harriers. Please help us keep spreading the word. The more people know about these crimes, the more people will take action to help prevent them in the future. Scroll down to the bottom of any of our recent blogs and you’ll see four icons – click any of these to share that blog on WhatsApp, Facebook, Twitter (X) or BlueSky. You can sign our petition, and share the link for it, by clicking here. Rodenticides Petition We'd also like to ask for your help on a related issue. Our friends in the Northern Ireland Raptor Study Group (NIRSG) are running a petition calling for a ban on the possession of dangerous, raptor-killing pesticides, similar to the successful ban that's been in place in Scotland since 2005. NIRSG launched this petition in 2023 after the illegal poisoning of two, young White-tailed Eagles that were found dead, side by side, on Northern Ireland's only driven grouse moor at Glenwherry, in the Antrim Hills. The petition is close to reaching 50,000 signatures and as soon as that target is met, the NIRSG will present the petition to Minister Andrew Muir. We'd be very grateful if you could help the NIRSG reach this goal. Anyone can sign it, from anywhere in the world. The petition can be found here. Thank you for your ongoing support. We’ll be sharing an important and exciting announcement tomorrow, so watch this space! Thank you, Wild Justice (Directors: Mark Avery, Chris Packham and Ruth Tingay). This is the 228th Wild Justice newsletter. This email was sent to you because you subscribed to it through the Wild Justice website or through an e-action or a petition where you ticked a box. Thank you. We will only use your personal details to send you the Wild Justice newsletter. We will not give or sell your details to anyone else. You can unsubscribe at any time: there is an unsubscribe button at the foot of this email or you can reply to this email and ask us to remove you from the list (the former will happen immediately, the latter might take a few days). 9 Lawson St Raunds Wellingborough Northants NN9 6NG UNITED KINGDOM Unsubscribe | Change Subscriber Options