Who gets prosecuted for rare bird deaths in Scotland?

The Scottish government is to increase penalties for those responsible for rare bird deaths, specifically targeting gamekeepers:

Senior ministers and officials in the Scottish government are closely studying proposals to licence grouse moors and make moor owners personally liable for the actions of their gamekeepers. The proposals, being studied in a new wildlife bill, could also mean that inspectors with Scotland’s leading animal welfare charity would be given greater legal powers to investigate bird of prey cases – instead of the police.

There is no mention if the Scottish government will be prosecuting itself for the rare birds killed by their misguided wind farm expansions.

A red kite. That's dead kite in Scottish

Some rare dead birds are more important than others, it all depends who did the killing. Convenient, no?

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12 thoughts on “Who gets prosecuted for rare bird deaths in Scotland?”

  3. The gamekeepers should start wearing propellor beanies, call themselves renewable energy sources, and have at the raptor population without fear of prosecution.

  4. The gamekeepers should start wearing propellor beanies, call themselves renewable energy sources, and have at the raptor population without fear of prosecution.

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  9. Poor Scotland. The land of Adam Smith, David Hume, James Watt, and many other great minds of the Enlightenment reduced to ridicule by these buffoons in what I believe Billy Connolly has labeled “the wee pretendy parliament”.

  10. Poor Scotland. The land of Adam Smith, David Hume, James Watt, and many other great minds of the Enlightenment reduced to ridicule by these buffoons in what I believe Billy Connolly has labeled “the wee pretendy parliament”.

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