As regular CFZ-watchers will know, for some time Corinna has been doing a column for Animals & Men and a regular segment on On The Track... particularly about out-of-place birds and rare vagrants. There seem to be more and more bird stories from all over the world hitting the news these days so, to make room for them all - and to give them all equal and worthy coverage - she has set up this new blog to cover all things feathery and Fortean.

Wednesday 22 August 2018

Controversial raven cull suspended for not being 'scientifically robust'



 Simon Johnson, scottish political editor
30 JULY 2018 • 1:57PM

A controversial licence to cull of hundreds of protected ravens to protect threatened wading birds has been suspended after officials found it was not scientifically "robust".

Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) granted the five-year research licence to the Strathbraan Community Collaboration for Waders (SCCW), in Perthshire, after curlew and lapwing numbers dropped by more than half in only two decades.

The initial licence allowed land managers to kill 69 ravens this year, with the total reviewed annually thereafter. SNH said it represented less than 0.5 per cent of raven numbers in Scotland.
But the natural conservation agency commissioned its scientific advisory committee to review the study following criticism from wildlife groups that it had no "scientific justification."


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