Secret filming uncovers illegal killings of rare birds in England

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  • Опубліковано 25 жов 2024
  • Obtaining visual evidence of wildlife crime in remote areas is hard enough.
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    Being able to hear them planning the crime, is game changing, according to the RSPB.
    Their new evidence comes as yet another report, out tomorrow, links wealthy grouse shooting estates to the killing of one of our most spectacular and rarest birds of prey - the Hen Harrier.
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  • @ChrisJB
    @ChrisJB 3 дні тому +206

    Pretty standard practise by the '(cough, splutter) custodians of the countryside' on the grouse moor killing fields of the Pennines (and elsewhere). Even with this, the toxic Moorland Association cannot bring themselves to condemn the criminal element within. Excellent work by the RSPB. Let's hope some meaningful change will come from this.

    • @coolboy5428
      @coolboy5428 2 дні тому +2

      Ohhh, yes you mean THOSE ones, yes the ones that look white but are secretly noses

    • @markhughes6692
      @markhughes6692 2 дні тому

      @@ChrisJB you don't see them do anything.

    • @Twitcher999
      @Twitcher999 2 дні тому +1

      @@markhughes6692And so it begins, let’s claim this is staged and all made up……seriously!!!
      The complete denial by many within the shooting industry, is what will ultimately lead to their own demise!
      You’ve only got to look at the multiple rushed posts on social media by the Moorland Association, to see that they are in total panic over this!

    • @chrisc2668
      @chrisc2668 День тому

      There's more wildlife on moors managed for shooting than any moor managed by the RSPB or moors owned by companies who have stopped allowing shooting. As said in a previous comment we don't see them do anything illegal. They don't say they've killed anything either.

    • @Fellmandave1
      @Fellmandave1 11 годин тому +1

      Well said Chris.

  • @bengreen171
    @bengreen171 2 дні тому +39

    what? That Moorland Association bloke just about sums it up - "why are you complaining about all the birds we've shot rather than celebrating the fact we haven't shot every single bird".

    • @Peacefulpreface6323
      @Peacefulpreface6323 День тому +3

      Jeffrey Dahmer: "why are you complaining about all the people I ate instead of celebrating the fact I didn't eat everyone?"

    • @bengreen171
      @bengreen171 День тому +4

      @@Peacefulpreface6323
      yeah, spot on.
      'Some of my victims escaped and I'm annoyed I don't get the credit for that'.

    • @Peacefulpreface6323
      @Peacefulpreface6323 День тому

      @@bengreen171 Gives a whole new meaning to "pity prize" doesn't it? Spoilt Etonian brats

  • @Fred-m5x
    @Fred-m5x 3 дні тому +106

    Game keepers shooting birds of prey at dovestones reservoir about this time last year when I was out walking, scumbags

    • @cosmiconion87
      @cosmiconion87 2 дні тому

      you should challenge them demand their gun licence number

    • @outlawJosieFox
      @outlawJosieFox 2 дні тому +13

      Get them on film or report to RSPB

    • @I-bench-more
      @I-bench-more 2 дні тому +1

      @@outlawJosieFox no, I see no problem

    • @123Andersonev
      @123Andersonev 2 дні тому +9

      @@I-bench-more because you're dense.

    • @sharongreen2908
      @sharongreen2908 2 дні тому +2

      RSPB are well aware of what these scum do, they think they're above the Law.

  • @jaywalker3087
    @jaywalker3087 3 дні тому +79

    I'm a member of the RSPB and Devon Wildlife Trust..
    I'm off for a few weeks to gather information around the isolated villages where I've seen disturbing activities.
    Being retired I have the time.
    I'm doing being proactive against the Elite morons...

  • @coppershark1973
    @coppershark1973 3 дні тому +119

    This country is disgusting. What the **** is wrong with people?

    • @crisdeeming2758
      @crisdeeming2758 3 дні тому +9

      Least of englands worries.

    • @TheVRSofa
      @TheVRSofa 3 дні тому +30

      rich people will keep fox hunting and bird hunting and breaking the law because even this is a joke, they only get fined. and of the 400 convictions only 3 went to court. so the rspb cant even prosocute....ffs. i can only agree with ya

    • @dougaltolan3017
      @dougaltolan3017 3 дні тому +15

      These people are not this country.
      Thier action is illegal.

    • @emilydavison2053
      @emilydavison2053 3 дні тому

      It's not specifically this country. Look at mass shooting of migrating birds in Mediterranean countries, glue trapping in France. Destruction of wildlife almost everywhere.

    • @NeilMalthus
      @NeilMalthus 3 дні тому

      @@crisdeeming2758 Strange you say that, because it's not, is it! They're all linked. The tory party, Royalty, phony religion, Class War right wing propaganda ... grouse shooting. It's capitalism 101 at the end of the day.
      *Ever wondered why there's an ecocide?*

  • @Nicho2020
    @Nicho2020 3 дні тому +106

    Despicable people working for a despicable business.

  • @coppershark1973
    @coppershark1973 3 дні тому +96

    That lawyer is a disgrace. He fails ENTIRELY to address the illegality!

  • @ElgataaRay-xe9wo
    @ElgataaRay-xe9wo 3 дні тому +70

    Evil Basterds

    • @fisherman5517
      @fisherman5517 2 дні тому +1

      mindless idiots with zero brain cells.

  • @BadgerBoy59
    @BadgerBoy59 2 дні тому +30

    Such a shameful irony that they'll shoot these birds to protect their business of breeding birds just to shoot those ones.

    • @chrisc2668
      @chrisc2668 День тому

      They don't bread grouse!

    • @BadgerBoy59
      @BadgerBoy59 День тому

      @@chrisc2668 I'll rephrase, they want to protect their business of allowing these birds to breed of their own accord just so they can go shoot them anyway.
      Is that better?
      Also, bread grouse? 😆

    • @chrisc2668
      @chrisc2668 День тому

      @@BadgerBoy59 oops 😬. Yes breed!! Although I suppose you could make grouse out of bread 🍞

  • @gerrimilner9448
    @gerrimilner9448 3 дні тому +20

    it is barely a century, since these people stopped nailing these and other predator corpses on the gateposts to warn other predators away, they dont seem to have got much brighter

  • @yokomotooto1255
    @yokomotooto1255 3 дні тому +45

    The majority of upland keepers kill birds of prey.

    • @XtraOrdinar-y
      @XtraOrdinar-y 2 дні тому +1

      That’s not true

    • @kevinparker461
      @kevinparker461 День тому

      @@XtraOrdinar-y Correct, they just keep telling lies!. People need to research where the most Harriers bred in 2024, on keepered estates!!!

  • @0rchy
    @0rchy 2 дні тому +17

    They should be refused a licence for breeding game birds if they do not allow our wildlife to take a number of them.

    • @dalebettison8053
      @dalebettison8053 2 дні тому +2

      They can't be bred as they are wild and managed....

    • @0rchy
      @0rchy 2 дні тому

      @@dalebettison8053Do your research because many are reared in large enclosures in remote wooded areas away from the public. The cages have significant water and feeding dispensers for the birds. They also have a running electric fence around the lower part to stop foxes and numerous entrances for the birds to come and go. The cage's feed, water, and security ensure the birds return at night.

  • @carolineroosyoga2017
    @carolineroosyoga2017 3 дні тому +50

    People are vile

  • @RachelFayLovelyDay
    @RachelFayLovelyDay 3 дні тому +59

    Breaking news: wealthy landowners in England are able to ignore the law 🤬

  • @jmomusicman
    @jmomusicman 2 дні тому +7

    One of the reasons I moved to Scotland. It does still happen up here, but considerably less the further north you go. Lived in North Derbyshire/South Yorkshire for 29 years, saw one Hen Harrier. Now I live in the highlands, see them semi-regularly, out on the Islands if you go looking it can be a daily occurrence. Watching a male sky dancing was a dream come true, truly spectacular creatures. This is just awful, but we all knew it all along. Absolute scum.

  • @jenniferharrison4319
    @jenniferharrison4319 3 дні тому +22

    The Hen Harrier is the mascot of the Forest of Bowland but they keep disappearing 🤬

    • @Akeeperslife
      @Akeeperslife 2 дні тому +1

      That's because there's nothing to eat !!!!

    • @auntie-fs
      @auntie-fs 2 дні тому

      Idiot ​@@Akeeperslife

    • @ChrisJB
      @ChrisJB 2 дні тому +5

      @jenniferharrison4319 There's a long history of raptor persecution in Bowland too.

    • @kevinparker461
      @kevinparker461 День тому

      There is also a few European Eagle Owls up there. They will kill anything, they are even on record killing young Peregrine falcons & Merlins. Facts are facts but of course the RSPB can't get more donations for that, they blame keepers!! with zero proof. If all this audio can be proved, take them to court & name them!!. But its probably a set up, wake up!!

  • @ChrisMurray-iw9ij
    @ChrisMurray-iw9ij 3 дні тому +25

    The RSPB won my charity this christmas with this level of legendary 💓

  • @jwillow2642
    @jwillow2642 3 дні тому +15

    it's their own play ground, still they get caught and still they deny it 😡 why are their face blocked

  • @jevanskickstandcrew8373
    @jevanskickstandcrew8373 3 дні тому +25

    This is outrageous

  • @philipashley1517
    @philipashley1517 2 дні тому +14

    This has been goin on for years, before anyone says Gamekeepers don't shoot raptors, they also poison them and trap them, absolutely disgusting

    • @fisherman5517
      @fisherman5517 2 дні тому +1

      the poison does not just kill raptors it also kills many other wildlife that feed on the poisoned carcas., but idiots do not care .

  • @Firkinnel
    @Firkinnel 3 дні тому +15

    Would a criminal offence automatically revoke their shotgun /firearms licences ?

    • @mickg7299
      @mickg7299 2 дні тому +10

      It’s proving it that is the problem. A Hen Harrier was shot on the Sandringham Estate some years back and Prince Harry was interviewed under caution but never charged.

    • @JamieCurranthemagnificent-z7h
      @JamieCurranthemagnificent-z7h 2 дні тому +2

      ​@@mickg7299 typical money talks!😂

    • @adamhousden6349
      @adamhousden6349 День тому

      @@mickg7299 what do you expect, the royals are above it all, look at the non sweaty visitor of epstein land for example

    • @1gerard47
      @1gerard47 9 годин тому

      ​@@mickg7299that pratt.

  • @robertnitrile519
    @robertnitrile519 3 дні тому +12

    The lawyer...quotes 0.01% is only the size of the loss of Hen Harriers ,,as if it is OK !! The man is a joke..a bad one at that!!

    • @graemekeable8461
      @graemekeable8461 16 годин тому

      That's 0.104 birds 😂 the blokes maths are slightly out

  • @tonysutton6559
    @tonysutton6559 2 дні тому +4

    Well done CH4. Proper public service broadcasting.

  • @TheMymovie
    @TheMymovie 3 дні тому +32

    Good video. Thanks for highlighting this.

  • @antonharefield8341
    @antonharefield8341 День тому +4

    Andrew Gilruth would have happily worked for the tobacco industry claiming there was no evidence to link smoking to lung cancer. He knows what he is.

  • @Indomitablespirit108
    @Indomitablespirit108 3 дні тому +20

    Stop shooting wildlife, enjoy the beauty and respect they're in relationships too! Wake up

  • @shlamimk4664
    @shlamimk4664 3 дні тому +57

    These guys can't get through their heads that we share this world with other creatures.
    Making a living off of the land is one thing.
    Making a killing is another thing entirely.

    • @guff9567
      @guff9567 3 дні тому

      The only thing you share the world with is you grubby council bedsit

    • @robinette4363
      @robinette4363 3 дні тому +5

      They are building council houses there, that's killing, channel 4 doesn't care

    • @guff9567
      @guff9567 2 дні тому +3

      @@robinette4363 people can easily live with the birds in their nests

    • @isaiahrowe8367
      @isaiahrowe8367 2 дні тому +8

      @@robinette4363council housing right on the top of an upland moor… yeah sure. Even if that was true, it wouldn’t make a difference to birds of prey like hen harriers. Huge areas of upland estates are owned by land owners and people who love to kill (grouse moors). As you see in this video these barbaric people have no issue in shooting a harrier (which is a species that has no threat to livestock or the grouse) and only determine not shoot if it doesn’t have a tracker. These people are the sole ones that responsible for harming birds of prey populations. Don’t try and shift the blame

    • @fisherman5517
      @fisherman5517 2 дні тому +1

      they are just morons .

  • @corvus1238
    @corvus1238 3 дні тому +88

    Time to ban all blood sports.

    • @Neilhuny
      @Neilhuny 3 дні тому +8

      How about someone in a highland area, short of money, that bags "one for the pot"? Not sport, just adding to the larder to feed his/her family, would you add that? Assume one or two animals a month. (grouse, pheasant, rabbits, hare, salmon, trout and many others)
      Personally, i would turn a blind eye to that - a waste of court time and a millennia old practice. The criminality comes in where the quarry is either protected or sold commercially, rather than being put in the freezer for your own use.
      But many people would see catching a few rabbits as a blood sport; what is a blood sport?

    • @LucaJH
      @LucaJH 3 дні тому +16

      ​@Neilhuny surely killing to eat isn't sport. Paying to go on a Shoot where you can kill loads but only keep 2 is sport.

    • @Anarchy4Angels
      @Anarchy4Angels 3 дні тому +10

      @@Neilhuny someone taking one or two for the pot would be prosecuted for poaching on behalf of the very same people killing the raptors. They don't like poor folk taking "their birds" they just want them for their rich mates so they can have a grand day out.

    • @PeppermintPatties
      @PeppermintPatties 3 дні тому

      💯

    • @mickg7299
      @mickg7299 2 дні тому +4

      @@Neilhuny People living in the highlands aren’t short of money, only sassenachs are likely to need “one for the pot.”

  • @louiseodonnell5518
    @louiseodonnell5518 День тому +2

    The ownership of estates who criminally kill raptors should be changed. The owners are not protecting or enhancing biodiversity for the nation and have shown themselves unworthy of landowning privilege.

  • @adrianfielding4678
    @adrianfielding4678 3 дні тому +22

    4% of UK land is annually torched and species cleansed, basically farming grouse for shooting. That is a lot of land badly managed - for perspective, not much more land, 5% of UK, is under housing.

    • @mattias5551
      @mattias5551 3 дні тому

      The land is not species cleansed nor torched, song birds are more numerous on managed shooting ground because of the amount of feeding and how things are set up. Controlled burning is an effective way to stop wildfires which are far more damaging. However I fully agree that killing hen harriers and other birds of prey is heinous mismanagement! If you cannot run your shoot alongside rare species then you shouldn't be in the job. Not only does it threaten a rare species but it also (as clearly seen here) brings a very poor spotlight on to an industry that oftentimes does a lot of undocumented good for the countryside which is easily 'brushed under the carpet' when cretins like this are given the job of keeping/ managing their ground

    • @bernardedwards8461
      @bernardedwards8461 2 дні тому

      We need to build lots of houses for the hundreds of thousands of immigrants who enter the country every year. Would you have them live in tents?

    • @adrianfielding4678
      @adrianfielding4678 2 дні тому

      Having written my comment I realised I may have generalised a bit. That said, some grouse moor landowners are clearly more ruthless and singularly focused than others.
      You are clearly interested in the subject of rural land use and management, may I recommend Benedict Macdonald's excellent book which is the best book on re-wilding, it is positive and plausible. Macdonald sets out well researched economic reasoning and a sensible inspiring plan for rewilding and farming to cohabit this island.

    • @DaveDunford
      @DaveDunford 2 дні тому +4

      @@mattias5551 "song birds are more numerous on managed shooting ground"
      You can't even get your own propaganda right. The (industry-funded) Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust study that you are misquoting wasn't about songbirds, it was about a handful of wader species (Curlew, Lapwing and Golden Plover IIRC) on moorlands. That's wading birds, not songbirds.

  • @yetidodger6650
    @yetidodger6650 День тому +2

    game keepers poisoned a white tailed eagle in Arundel a few years ago, the trouble is theres a strong connection between these bastards and the judiciary.

  • @sarahbenn1792
    @sarahbenn1792 2 дні тому +4

    Great work RSPB. Shame on those who kill wild birds and raise and kill 'game' birds for money/fun

  • @SevenStanesMBT
    @SevenStanesMBT 2 дні тому +11

    No surprises there. These people will do whatever it takes to protect their interests. Most of our countryside is desert thanks to these goons.

  • @phubblewubbphubblewubb
    @phubblewubbphubblewubb 2 дні тому +10

    Breeding birds for the guns should not be happening, it's disgusting.

    • @ThePhonzman
      @ThePhonzman 2 дні тому

      You can’t breed grouse. They’re wild.

  • @WhiskeyGulf71
    @WhiskeyGulf71 День тому +2

    "people" are such arseholes ! Pond with some ducks or swans, some gimp is chucking rocks at them, rare wild birds, some turd is shooting them ! FFS 🤦🏻‍♂️

  • @theenglishtrucker1849
    @theenglishtrucker1849 2 дні тому +8

    Lets ban game bird hunting. Its not needed, plenty of food in the supermarkets. Why we allow shooting of animals for "fun" is fucking disgusting!

  • @sonnydugganphotography
    @sonnydugganphotography День тому +2

    Absolutely Disgusting

  • @fisherman5517
    @fisherman5517 2 дні тому +12

    Is this the reason why the public are denied access to roam , in case we witness this evil act .

    • @thewhitbyphotographer
      @thewhitbyphotographer 2 дні тому +5

      Roam anyway. It's not illegal to film on Private land if you are filming for crime prevention.

    • @JamieCurranthemagnificent-z7h
      @JamieCurranthemagnificent-z7h 2 дні тому

      Good point!🤔👍

    • @DaveDunford
      @DaveDunford День тому

      @@thewhitbyphotographer Unfortunately, the resulting footage is often declared inadmissible in court. The loopholes protecting the shooting industry are incredible.

    • @kevinparker461
      @kevinparker461 День тому

      @@DaveDunford No loopholes!!, if its against the law that is enough, stop telling lies!!!

    • @DaveDunford
      @DaveDunford День тому

      @@kevinparker461 Read my post again. I'm not defending the shooting industry, but I'm pointing out that footage obtained without permission is often declared inadmissible in court. Weirdly, landowners can argue that covert footage was only obtained by trespass or that permission was not given. It sucks. I'm on your side.

  • @Mercury88-b7k
    @Mercury88-b7k 3 дні тому +16

    This is an absolute disgrace. What the fk are you doing? You will be identified and prosecuted.

    • @KeithRingo
      @KeithRingo 3 дні тому +2

      Yeah very very serious suspended sentence

  • @juliemaddern
    @juliemaddern 3 дні тому +14

    All birds are important

    • @caravanstuff2827
      @caravanstuff2827 3 дні тому +3

      Way more important than humans..we destroy and can't live in harmony with our environment.. birds are invaluable as spreaders of seeds and controller's of insects..the planet could survive without humans , but not birds!!!.❤️🌍

    • @juliemaddern
      @juliemaddern 3 дні тому

      @@caravanstuff2827 Hear Hear X

    • @user-us7el6ss2l
      @user-us7el6ss2l 2 дні тому +2

      @@caravanstuff2827 Pollinators, Food chains... all sorts.
      China declared war on sparrows; Result was that people starved after locusts destroyed crops!

    • @juliemaddern
      @juliemaddern 2 дні тому

      @@user-us7el6ss2l Taught them a lesson, such beautiful birds x

    • @struancochrane753
      @struancochrane753 День тому

      Not grouse, they are wild and an indigenous species in upland Britain.

  • @nathanrichards9202
    @nathanrichards9202 2 дні тому +4

    Blood boiling, It needs to be licenced like in Scotland!

  • @dcurleyifa
    @dcurleyifa 2 дні тому +3

    Only when the landowners get prosecuted will their staff the gamekeepers will stop shooting Harriers and other raptors

  • @satnav1980
    @satnav1980 2 дні тому +3

    They should reveal who it is? Some people may wish to pay them a visit really late at night.

  • @davidsmith1066
    @davidsmith1066 2 дні тому +1

    It’s all about greed money the ring behind this should be jailed disgusting behaviour they should be ashamed of themselves

  • @scottrichards4532
    @scottrichards4532 3 дні тому +5

    Find something useful to do,These birds are hunting to live not for cash and sheer greed.

  • @mebob
    @mebob 3 дні тому +11

    This is for the rich people nothing will happen to them they should be arrested 1 rule for them 1 rule for us absolute disgrace this country is fucked

    • @juneduffy4502
      @juneduffy4502 2 дні тому

      They don’t sound very elite - they sound uneducated and stupid

    • @fisherman5517
      @fisherman5517 2 дні тому +1

      IT has been for a number of years now , sinse the idiots were voted into power.

  • @VanderWolls
    @VanderWolls 3 дні тому +13

    This should be reported as birds being killed in Britain, not England.

    • @malcolmlane-ley2044
      @malcolmlane-ley2044 3 дні тому

      Did you not hear? the evidence is being forwarded to the police?

    • @DaveDunford
      @DaveDunford День тому

      @@malcolmlane-ley2044 I think the OP's (rather weird) point was about geography rather than whether or not this incident will be reported (which, as stated in the video, has already been passed to the police).

  • @mattrishton
    @mattrishton День тому +1

    Absolute disgrace...

  • @willhall4936
    @willhall4936 2 дні тому +3

    4:33 best wash your palms of all that grease, Andrew Gilruth. a traitor to lands you’re supposed to protect.

  • @shaynebrewer6306
    @shaynebrewer6306 2 дні тому +6

    For those who are questioning the cameras being there,it’s because it’s a well known harrier roost in swaledale,and that’s why the keepers are there ambushing them coming back,bastards

  • @stevemorris6855
    @stevemorris6855 2 дні тому +3

    RSPB should be given more powers.

    • @richiedd4119
      @richiedd4119 2 дні тому +2

      no they would buy more land and sell it off to build houses,

  • @bernardedwards8461
    @bernardedwards8461 2 дні тому +2

    Grouse and hen harriers have lived side by side for thousands of years, and both species have flourished. It cant be denied that hen harriers occasionally take young grouse, but they also take many other things and dont prey exclusively on grouse. In my view it makes a day's shoot more interesting if you see the occasional raptor, particularly a rare one like the hen harrier. Licencing is a bureaucratic job creation scheme, and apart from easing the unemployment problem does nothing to help raptors.There are better ways of finding work for unemp;loyed youngsters. Some birds are protected which shouldn't be, and are a danger to much rarer birds. I'm thinking in particular of herring gulls and lesser black backs, which are a menace, and there are others.

  • @Ryansghost
    @Ryansghost 3 дні тому +8

    The owners will just blame 'rogue' gamekeepers. Get it licensed.

  • @davidbarnes241
    @davidbarnes241 3 дні тому +11

    Sad little men in sad little jobs, working for sad little men, who like shooting ‘game’ birds. Sad really ☹️

    • @coolboy5428
      @coolboy5428 2 дні тому

      Most of them re lovely nice jewish men who do that.

  • @simonpedley9729
    @simonpedley9729 2 дні тому +1

    the royal family estates are the worst for this

  • @theshadow2576
    @theshadow2576 День тому

    Humans are soooo warped. Shoot a beautiful bird to protect the birds that are to be shot!!!!!! WTF is wrong with humanity????

  • @annakulkarni8435
    @annakulkarni8435 3 дні тому +8

    They must be punished.

  • @farmstyle92macd55
    @farmstyle92macd55 2 дні тому +1

    I’m a stockman and I hate keepers

    • @alf2892
      @alf2892 2 дні тому

      what don't you like about them?

  • @Dhuxul9
    @Dhuxul9 2 дні тому +4

    ban the sport

  • @temparalflux914
    @temparalflux914 День тому

    The irony that they are shooting these birds to stop them killing the grouse...that they will also be killing.

  • @jimwalker760
    @jimwalker760 3 дні тому +4

    But what happens when the gamekeepers do get to court? A few weeks in prison suspended for a year or so and a fine that’ll be covered by landowner.
    There is no deterrent. Policing this is going to be extremely difficult as 98% of the land in England is private with very little public access outside of national parks.
    The rich, as ever, remain unaccountable.

  • @alishademmery3581
    @alishademmery3581 2 дні тому +2

    Stop the slaughter

  • @sofyaharrison7725
    @sofyaharrison7725 День тому

    It's mad that people even want to do this. It annoys me that the keepers will take the fall here and the landowners who should also be punished just do what they want with impunity.

  • @DJWESG1
    @DJWESG1 3 дні тому +1

    so are they worried about the predator birds? the predator men? or the predator land owners?
    im confused.

  • @patrickstuart8211
    @patrickstuart8211 2 дні тому +2

    How did they know where to place the camera and how was the radio conversation captured/recorded??

  • @artgreen6915
    @artgreen6915 День тому

    04:35 there's a boom in hen harriers?
    I've got my own opinion on the main source of obfuscation around this issue. It differs from his.

  • @enbonj5842
    @enbonj5842 2 дні тому +1

    Hunting for sport is cruel. Birdwatching and photography is a lot more rewarding. Guns dont add beauty to the world.

  • @BearWolfMountain
    @BearWolfMountain 3 дні тому +3

    Well done channel 4

  • @tobywhitehead7488
    @tobywhitehead7488 2 дні тому +1

    Jail. That's all.

  • @Maxwell-mv9rx
    @Maxwell-mv9rx 3 дні тому

    Hunters in UK keep out dignity is showing dark side of the society . Wild and coward their are above the law.

  • @georgedart1
    @georgedart1 16 годин тому

    Nature Scot builds shooting tower 200 yards away from a well known Osprey nesting site where WTE are as well in Sutherland.

  • @fisherman5517
    @fisherman5517 2 дні тому +1

    do the idiots that are breaking the law wear tags , if not why not.

  • @philipashley1517
    @philipashley1517 2 дні тому +1

    Check out the Pennines over woodhead and snake pass,us birdspotters call it (Bandit Country), Merlin hen harrier buzzard short eared owl, 😢😢

  • @PeppermintPatties
    @PeppermintPatties 3 дні тому +3

    Well done Wild Justice. 👏
    Thank you for your invaluable work.
    EDIT: F* landlordism.

  • @KevinField-w6p
    @KevinField-w6p 2 дні тому +1

    this happens in lincs all the time

  • @specdel
    @specdel 2 дні тому +5

    Very strange, if this is widespread, that there are more hen harriers on moors managed for grouse shooting than anywhere else - including RSPB reserves. There are more hen harriers in England now than for the last 200 years. Interesting that the statistics quoted are for the last 15 years no mention of the trajectory over the most recent 3 or 4 years? If you want to support Ornithology join the British Trust for Ornithology, far more balanced and not political.

    • @nightwolf1592
      @nightwolf1592 2 дні тому +4

      But their concerns and statistics are the same.

    • @Morganovicz
      @Morganovicz День тому +2

      Of course there are more hen harriers on moors, that's their only breeding habitat. Even if they were shot until there was only one pair left, it would still be on moorland as that's where they live. That does not remotely mean that grouse shoots benefit them, it just means that they have bought up all the available habitat. There are more now than for 200 years because they now have legal protection, which prevents some of the killing, it clearly doesn't prevent it all.
      What's your argument here? Regardless of how well or badly hen harriers are doing nationally, this is a video of a crime being committed, and because the RSPB has recorded the evidence, it's political and not worthy of support?

    • @specdel
      @specdel День тому

      There are more hen harriers on moors managed for grouse shooting than ‘other moors’ because the gamekeepers so regularly castigated, provide the conditions in which ground nesting birds can thrive. Read Ian Coghill’s excellent book on the subject - ‘Moorland Matters’. I agree that illegal killing of raptors is abhorrent and needs to be stamped out but the RSPB are giving the impression that this is happening on all Grouse moors all the time, when in fact it is very rare and becoming rarer.

    • @nightwolf1592
      @nightwolf1592 День тому +2

      @@specdel
      It is not a rare occurrence.
      And this affects many birds of prey.
      A local farmer here in Cumbria reported game keepers for shooting a short eared owl on moorland next to his land.
      A different gamekeeper on a neighbouring estate was filmed shooting short eared owls and was arrested.
      Two more estates are having investigations after a number of tagged hen harriers disappeared including one nest stamped on and utterly destroyed.

  • @aq9714
    @aq9714 День тому

    These people are disgusting. How archaic is this? What people will do for money. They need to be heavily fined, a lot of money to be put into restoration, the gig is up boys.

  • @voiceinthenoise3357
    @voiceinthenoise3357 2 дні тому +2

    Heather habitat is a valid part of the uplands, and even lowland heaths. But monoculture moorland maintained by burning wastes vast areas of land; land privately owned purely because their rich ancestors stole it by the sword centuries ago. Any species that benefits from heather monoculture (such as red grouse, and curlew, apparently) is far outweighed by all the other species lost to gamekeeping, or pushed out from the environment because it is so ecologically barren. The issue isn't that heather moorland is bad; it's that there's way too much of it in a severely nature depleted country that needs to rewild as much land as possible, that isn't used on other necessary things. Grouse moors aren't necessary; they should be transformed into a blended, biodiverse patchwork of woodland, scrubland and heath/moor. Just look at Arne nature reserve - I don't think they burn the heather to keep it open, but even if they do I'm sure it would be done minimally to ensure that trees didn't take over completely. And the animals that move in should be left alone, even if they do eat the poshies precious grouse dinner.

  • @SavvyCynophile
    @SavvyCynophile 3 дні тому +3

    Introduce the same laws as now in Scotland.

  • @alexking1348
    @alexking1348 День тому +2

    The sheer irony of playing a Curlews call at 4:55 - the very bird grouse moors are saving from extinction!
    There shouldn’t be blanket bans on what can/can’t be persecuted - buzzards and kites should be being controlled at the moment, but I agree, in most parts of the country, hen harriers should not. An American style of wildlife management would be a more scientific and less political middle ground.

    • @DaveDunford
      @DaveDunford День тому

      "the very bird grouse moors are saving from extinction!"
      Subjective, hyperbolic rubbish.
      Curlews are declining in the UK, but they are not threatened with extinction. They would rather nest in wet meadows than on moorland, but they have been forced onto suboptimal habitat by farmland.
      Why should buzzards and kites be "controlled" (you mean "shot dead", of course, but "controlled" sounds nicer) just so you can get your creepy kicks from shooting dumb animals? Prey numbers control prey, not the other way round.

  • @double531
    @double531 3 дні тому

    Difficult to enforce. Doubtful the police have or will have the resources to confront and convict these people.

  • @caravanstuff2827
    @caravanstuff2827 3 дні тому +3

    Jesus what's going on in the UK.. it's becoming like some wild west frontier.. every time there's a post about England it's about some kind of law and order issue... their starting to descend into a second world country!!.❤️🙏🇲🇫🇺🇦

    • @jaywalker3087
      @jaywalker3087 3 дні тому

      Third World, where the rich get richer, the poor get poorer and Law's are made to Oppress anyone trying to change the system....
      It's like the Middle Ages all over again.

  • @fraserconnell21
    @fraserconnell21 3 дні тому +4

    It's grim up north. Especially if you're working class more so if yer a raptor 😮😑🙄🤲

  • @Firkinnel
    @Firkinnel 3 дні тому +2

    Do they still use lead in bird shot these days ?
    I always wondered if the pellets contaminated the land.

  • @JayJ-j3s
    @JayJ-j3s 3 дні тому

    Danny Champion of the World ...... beautiful story.......and as for the bees and the birds all creatures great and small......its a jungle

  • @lionroar26
    @lionroar26 2 дні тому

    But look over there.
    They are eating cats and dogs.

  • @keeksputels1851
    @keeksputels1851 2 дні тому +1

    Worst they'll get is 6 months. Makes my blood boil how light the sentances are

  • @Steve-hu7jf
    @Steve-hu7jf 2 дні тому

    Sell the land give the money to the nhs

  • @johngibson5450
    @johngibson5450 2 дні тому

    should jail them b...........

  • @borisfargo1290
    @borisfargo1290 2 дні тому +6

    Set up I’d say. How do you get a video in the right place ?

    • @petereyres1050
      @petereyres1050 2 дні тому

      Great work by the RSPB investigation teams over several months tracking the movements of these despicable men. If I had to pick a side I'm gonna go with the people paid peanuts to work for charities for a cause they care about, not handsomely paid gamekeepers employed by some of the richest people in the world to prop up a multi billion pound industry. A ploy for fundraising, what, for some renovated toilets at a nature reserve? - ooook

    • @DaveDunford
      @DaveDunford 2 дні тому +3

      Hen Harrier habitually roost in the same places, and the location of roosts will be known to the RSPB (and of course to the gamekeepers). Hidden cameras can be placed accordingly. No conspiracy required.

    • @alf2892
      @alf2892 2 дні тому +2

      @@DaveDunford He's talking about the poachers. Of all spots they got a perfect shot of him in frame, when there could of been hundreds of spots for them to shoot from and if they had any sense it wouldn't of been a known shooting location. More likely an undercover setup.

    • @daverudland3488
      @daverudland3488 2 дні тому +1

      Suspect they know exactly who it is shooting. Unlikely they knew they were being filmed, but you're right, they might try to claim they were in on it, in some kind of elaborate hoax 🤫

    • @Morganovicz
      @Morganovicz День тому +1

      Shooters shoot from fixed positions where they have good views over the land and can shelter behind walls they've built. Go to any grouse moor and you'll see them all over the place, simply point the camera at one near a hen harriers roost (at least one HH that they spotted was tagged, so the roost location will be known).
      Also, that would serve no purpose, this video was recorded to collect evidence of a crime, which is being investigated by the police and prosecute the individuals involved. That would hardly work if they were using actors...

  • @GregorSamsa000
    @GregorSamsa000 2 дні тому +1

    I bet these people would vote for trump 😂

  • @robertskolimowski7049
    @robertskolimowski7049 3 дні тому

    0.01%??, is that even true?🤔

  • @marooned4383
    @marooned4383 2 дні тому

    why its just stupid can eat it any way jesus wtf is wronge with some people

  • @BobGP1
    @BobGP1 23 години тому

    The north york moors again?

  • @struancochrane753
    @struancochrane753 2 дні тому +1

    Halfway through the video during footage of a hen harrier, you can hear the distinctive call of a Curlew. These are on the endangered birds list, ground nesting, but they have high results on managed areas for ground nesting birds. I am NOT condoning the illegal act the these keepers are alleged to have done. It is though, not as simple as one thinks, "just ban shooting". With that goes Curlews and other ground nesting birds.

    • @nightwolf1592
      @nightwolf1592 2 дні тому +2

      Nonsense.
      Loss of habitat has destroyed the populations of Curlews and Lapwings.
      Most are lost to land development and the blades of the silage machines.
      A few survive by making use of the margins but that is no excuse for the wholesale eradication of other wildlife.
      Mono crops of game birds spread diseases and now we are seeing bird flu being spread by these birds.

  • @claymore2k1T10
    @claymore2k1T10 3 дні тому +4

    More Channel 4 sensationalism.

  • @davidbull9681
    @davidbull9681 2 дні тому

    I love the brown hare,and i know that buzzards and other birds of prey kill a lot of leverets.no im not a shooter or a courser.

  • @ianmorrison4661
    @ianmorrison4661 3 дні тому +10

    And yet the grouse moors along with their keepers consistently produce more hen harriers per year than the so called rspb reserves, how can that be?

    • @auntie-fs
      @auntie-fs 2 дні тому

      Idiot

    • @seanmorris
      @seanmorris 2 дні тому +4

      By my reckoning 10% of Scotland is private grouse moor, 1% is RSPB and that includes non moorland areas such as estuaries, sea cliffs etc. So you'd expect private grouse moors to have a higher number of Harriers, buzzards etc.

    • @mesijania
      @mesijania 2 дні тому +3

      It is this kind of denial that is bringing an end to driven grouse moors. If only the land owners and keepers had been more honest about the problem, millions of people would not now be calling to an all out ban of the sport.

    • @XtraOrdinar-y
      @XtraOrdinar-y 2 дні тому

      Because there’s only a select few game keepers that do shoot protected species

  • @grahamshepherd4847
    @grahamshepherd4847 3 дні тому +13

    I dont think gamekeepers would carry guns in that manner, i.e. horizontal, as it is unsafe. Im suspicious this is staged. the chance of putting a camera and a mic in the right spot on a moor is very unlikely. The voices could even be dubbed. If there are police and convictions, then thats fine, but this could just be propaganda . Ive no axe to grind on grouse shooting , but just a bit suspicious

    • @django3422
      @django3422 3 дні тому +7

      Chap, I've had guns pointed AT me by gamekeepers, because they're human and some of them are reckless idiots.

    • @A_Year_In_The_Woods
      @A_Year_In_The_Woods 2 дні тому +4

      I was a little surprised that the audio from the "keeper" captures clothing touching a microphone. If keepers are still breaking the law then they have to be prosecuted but having set several trail cameras over many years, finding such a precise location and recording such audible sounds at that range make me deeply suspicious about this film.

    • @DaveDunford
      @DaveDunford 2 дні тому +1

      @@A_Year_In_The_Woods I imagine it's a hidden camera at a known Hen Harrier roost, and previous surveillance may have identified the keepers' habitual hiding places and informed the placing of the camera. No conspiracy required, but it's revealing that so many people with shooting connections - several people here including you, plus Andrew Gilruth in the clip - are trying to discredit this clear evidence of criminalty by people in your industry. You're supposed to be opposed to criminality by the "handful of bad apples" in your industry - this response doesn't look like that.

    • @daverudland3488
      @daverudland3488 2 дні тому +1

      Sounds like these people have been identified, and what they do. At that point the conspiracy theories ring pretty hollow.

    • @grahamshepherd4847
      @grahamshepherd4847 2 дні тому

      @@daverudland3488 Please keep me posted on this , genuine or otherwise.

  • @gimlet61cotswoldlad38
    @gimlet61cotswoldlad38 3 дні тому +7

    What this allegedly shows are bad apples, within what is a lifestyle that protects and preserves.
    What it doesn't show is that RSPB land, bird numbers have reduced drastically but where managed private and public licensed areas have had many successes in breeding programs.
    Another piece of fund raising propaganda that does not provide the full story.

    • @susanb.1113
      @susanb.1113 3 дні тому +7

      It is fact, not alleged.

    • @gimlet61cotswoldlad38
      @gimlet61cotswoldlad38 3 дні тому +1

      @@susanb.1113
      Camera placed on vast area of moorland, not only in exactly the required spot but picking up without any wind noise, radio chatter.
      You hear a gun shot, you do not see the shooter or what was shot if anything.
      Facts need actual evidence, this is propaganda and does not provide that which you allege.
      Reminds me of the video that was put out, alleged months apart but the celebrity wore the same clothes, the foliage had not changed over the weeks between and no proof was ever put forward on its location or the alleged parties involved!

    • @jaywalker3087
      @jaywalker3087 3 дні тому

      ​@@gimlet61cotswoldlad38you are very wrong.
      I travel around the South West, anonymously gathering evidence.
      I've seen many disturbing things that prove you are a part of the problems...

    • @EvenBigger-Brother
      @EvenBigger-Brother 2 дні тому +4

      @@gimlet61cotswoldlad38 the killers probably return to the same advantage points to hunt .
      so a camera and mic could be easily positioned to surveil them .

    • @DaveDunford
      @DaveDunford 2 дні тому +2

      @@gimlet61cotswoldlad38 Why are you defending obvious criminality?