Chris Rollie, RSPB Scotland’s area manager for Dumfries and Galloway, said: “When great efforts are being made to attract visitors to rural areas, the negative message of an illegally poisoned countryside is the last thing we need, while the effect on wildlife is appalling.”
Dumfries and Galoway is notorious and recently this year, four buzzards were found poisoned and baits recovered from the area.
And so the police, the government and RSPB aare at task with investigations given the outrageous raptor poisoning cases tha thave led to calls by a charity for crackdown on bird poisoning.
The charity’s investigations staff received a total of 229 reports of possible persecution incidents in 2007 in Scotland, 16 of which were from the Dumfries and Galloway area.
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This kind of wanton killing is the product of sick minds. I understand the unintentional poisoning of birds from chemical runoff, but any purposeful effort on behalf of individuals to actively seek out and kill specific animals for the sake of persecution is simply an act of derengement. You would think that even losers like that could find better things to do with their time. This is not only an animal cruelty issue, but more importantly, a direct assault on the survival of a species in this ecosystem. Scotland must pass stringent laws to protect its remaining unique ecosystems and the animals that live there. Warped individuals with a “killing sickness” have no right to deny the people of Scotland their God given natural heritage. Find them, fine them, lock them up, and throw away the key.
Best Wishes to those working to save this species and law enforcement hunting down the deviant perpetrators.