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One of the UK’s top grouse shooting estates has sparked fury after admitting it “legally” kills cats which stray onto its moors. The 13,500 acre Bolton Abbey Estate, near Skipton in the Yorkshire Dales, said it “legally controls foxes and feral cats”, after a visitor found and photographed a dead cat and fox in an area of the moor containing …
Dozens of birds of prey were illegally shot, trapped and poisoned in 2019, according to the RSPB’s latest bird crime report, prompting calls for tougher legislation from the UK government. Mark Thomas, RSPB’s head of investigations UK, said the report showed birds of prey protected by the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 were being “relentlessly persecuted”. “UK governments must implement …
