Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Derbyshire gamekeeper loses appeal for attempting to kill birds of prey

Excellent news and well done to the RSPB in this case. See

http://www.rspb.org.uk/news/303514-derbyshire-gamekeeper-loses-appeal-for-attempting-to-kill-birds-of-prey

This is an important result but ultimately my view is that the land managers and owners should be held legally accountable for any wildlife crimes that are committed by their staff, as is the case in Scotland. Please give consideration to signing the following petition to help make this happen

http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/23089

Thanks

Nick
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2 comments:

Jeff Cox said...

Good news but I agree that the landowners should be made responsible. that's the only way we'll make headway into the real issue.

6:46 pm
Steve Cummings said...

....but would vicarious liability extend to everybody shooting on the land. On rough shoots, the visiting shooters are left to their own devices....i.e. not under any supervision. This is probably how visiting Maltese poachers are able to shoot non-legitimate quarry species, as has happened recently.

7:14 pm

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