Four New Satellite Tags Fitted This Summer Thanks To Your Generous Donations Our second Christmas Appeal, launched in December 2024, was as generously supported as the original campaign, and raised sufficient funds to sponsor four satellite tags. Now that the breeding season is over, the tags have been fitted and the chicks have fledged, we […]| Hen Harrier Day
Announcing the Winning Entries in the Young, Junior and Senior Categories 2025 marks the second year that we have run the Young Wild Photographer competition, aiming the echo the success of our long-running Young Wild Writers contest, so it was exciting to see a big increase in entries this year. We were thrilled that renowned […]| Hen Harrier Day
Young Wild Writers Make Their Voices Heard for Nature Announcing the Winners of The 2025 Young Wild Writers Competition “This year’s Young Wild Writers competition has once again seen some astonishing and visionary pieces of writing” says best-selling children’s author Gill Lewis, who judged the competition. “The theme this year was ‘Capture the Moment’ and […]| Hen Harrier Day
Young Category (5-8 Years) Winner: Freya Roy, Age 5 – Farley Hill Primary School The Cute Cygnet I am a little baby swan and I am curled up inside an egg. Inside my egg I can just see light and dark. I have never seen anything else before. I think that my egg is everything […]| Hen Harrier Day
A New Report from the RSPB Documents the Scale of Illegal Killing of Hen Harriers In anticipation of the debate on Monday 30th June in Westminster of Wild Justice’s ‘Ban Driven Grouse Shooting‘ petition, which garnered over 104,000 signatures, this new report from the RSPB sets out all the devastating facts about the illegal killing of Hen Harriers […]| Hen Harrier Day
Hen Harrier Action Has a Vacancy for a Volunteer Treasurer and Trustee – Do You Know Anyone Who Might be Interested? Jack Whitelegg After more than 18 months of dedicated service to the charity, our current Treasurer and Trustee, Jack Whitelegg, is stepping down this month. Like all of us, Jack is an unpaid volunteer, […]| Hen Harrier Day
Huge thanks are due to all our supporters and friends whose generosity ensured that the Wildlife Crime Detection Dogs Appeal hit target in less than 20 days! Announced on the Skydancer Day live broadcast on the 10th of May, after a fascinating interview with DI Mark Harrison of the National Wildlife Crime Unit alongside dog handler Kevin […]| Hen Harrier Day
Female Hen Harrier Sita, Satellite Tagged in the Forest of Bowland (Photo: NERF) Sita Disappears on a Grouse Moor in the Yorkshire Dales National Park As we reported in our last email newsletter, among the many positive messages from the Yorkshire Dales National Park that we heard in our Skydancer Day broadcast on the 10th […]| Hen Harrier Day
Charlie Moores and Rob Pownall from Protect the Wild on stage at Action for Wildlife Day Our Wildlife Crime Detection Dogs Appeal Gains Welcome Support from Protect the Wild Our good friends Rob Pownall and Charlie Moores from campaigning wildlife charity Protect the Wild have lent their support to Hen Harrier Action’s latest fundraising appeal, […]| Hen Harrier Day
Donations have been flooding in during the first two weeks of our appeal. You can find out more about the wildlife crime detection dogs and our appeal here.| Hen Harrier Day