Historic day as Scottish Parliament votes through grouse moor licensing!

In the last few minutes, the Scottish Parliament (with the exception of the Scottish Tories) has voted overwhelmingly in support of the Wildlife Management & Muirburn Bill!

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Wildlife Management & Muirburn Bill goes through 30 Tories vote against, everyone else for

Another satellite-tagged hen harrier ‘Shalimar’ disappears in suspicious circumstances in Angus Glens 

Shalimar

RSPB Scotland are appealing for information following the sudden, suspicious disappearance of a satellite-tagged Hen Harrier in Glen Esk in Angus.

The tag fitted to ‘Shalimar’ a young female Hen Harrier, which fledged from a nest on the National Trust for Scotland’s Mar Lodge Estate in Aberdeenshire last summer, was functioning as expected before data transmissions unexpectedly and suddenly stopped on 15 February.