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Wildlife photographer Richard Birchett
March 9th 2024
Richard Birchett is a published and award-winning wildlife photographer from Cornwall, now based in Ontario, Canada for the next four years. He has worked with BBC Wildlife Magazine, Springwatch, Countryfile and The...
Poster image for Young Wild Photographer Competition
February 15th 2024
Enter Our 2024 Young Wild Photographer Competition Today Are you aged between 12 and 18 with a camera or a smartphone? Do you love observing wildlife? Why not enter Hen Harrier Action’s...
New co-chairs Paul Samuels and Indy Kiemel Greene
December 23rd 2023
Upland wildlife conservation charity Hen Harrier Action has today announced changes to the Board of Trustees taking effect at the end of this year, including the appointment of two new co-chairs, following...
Young Hen Harrier chick
December 17th 2023
Hen Harrier Tagging Christmas Appeal Smashes Fundraising Target in Just Eight Days Thanks to the Generosity of Supporters A crowdfunded Christmas Appeal launched by upland wildlife conservation charity Hen Harrier Action to...
An RSPB Investigations Officer in the field
December 8th 2023
Mark Thomas bird ringing (photo courtesy Mark Thomas) RSPB’s Mark Thomas on Raptor Persecution and the latest Birdcrime Report Following the publication of the latest RSPB 2022 Birdcrime Report, which annually documents...
Poster for the 2023 Christmas Appeal to raise funds for satellite tags
December 2nd 2023
The latest RSPB Birdcrime Report documents the continuing relentless persecution of Hen Harriers and other birds of prey in the UK. As the Report notes, ‘despite being fully protected by law and...
Front Cover of the 2022 RSPB Birdcrime Report, showing five dead goshawks, illegally killed in Suffolk by a gamekeeper
November 24th 2023
Latest RSPB Birdcrime Report Reveals Continuing Relentless Persecution of Hen Harriers and Raptors in the UK The annual RSPB Birdcrime Report reveals the confirmed cases of illegal raptor persecution in the UK,...
Steve Downing, Chair of the Northern England Raptor Forum
November 6th 2023
Steve Downing is the Chair of the Northern England Raptor Forum (NERF), established in 2006 to provide a single collective voice representing the conservation interests of raptors throughout the North of England,...
Conservationists gathered outside DEFRA offices to call for government action to protect and restore nature in the UK
October 26th 2023
More Than 40 Nature Conservation NGOs Gathered Outside the DEFRA Offices in London to Peacefully Demonstrate and Call for Government Action to Restore Nature Now In response to the alarming declines in...
An Atlas of Endangered Species book front cover
October 1st 2023
In Conversation with Megan McCubbin about Endangered Species Megan McCubbin This article is the first in a new series of conversations with leading figures in the nature conservation world to learn more...
Front cover of Mark Avery's book Reflections, What Wildlife Needs and How to Provide It
September 24th 2023
The new book from Mark Avery – lifelong conservationist, author and campaigning founder of Wild Justice along with Chris Packham and Ruth Tingay – offers a informed overview of the state of...
Children's author Gill Lewis, the lead judge for the competition
August 21st 2023
Young people from all over the country have made their voices heard for nature in the annual Young Wild Writers competition run by Hen Harrier Action and judged by a panel led...