Read this fascinating interview with award-winning author and naturalist Mark Cocker, and hear him speak at Action for Wildlife Day at Carsington Water in August| Hen Harrier Day
We are a wildlife conservation charity working to protect the UK's uplands and help species thrive, running Skydancer Day and Hen Harrier Day events to raise awareness.| Hen Harrier Day
Wildlife Crime Detection Dog Henry with Michaela Strachan at IFAW Awards (Photo: IFAW) Wildlife Detection Dog Henry Named Animal of the Year by the International Fund for Animal Welfare at a Ceremony in London 10-year-old Springer Spaniel Henry, well-known to Hen Harrier Action supporters as the dog that fronted our Detection Dog Fundraising Appeal, has […]| Hen Harrier Day
In a wide-ranging and provocative talk to a packed audience in Buxton, multi-award-winning author and conservationist Mark Cocker explored the devastating| Hen Harrier Day
RSPB Reveal More Detail About the Suspicious Disappearance of Hen Harrier Sita in the Yorkshire Dales National Park An RSPB Press Release issued this week reveals more detail about the location where the young female Hen Harrier, Sita – satellite tagged thanks to the generous donations from our supporters – met her untimely end, less than nine […]| Hen Harrier Day
An RSPB press release issued today reveals more detail about the Yorkshire Dales location where a satellite-tagged Hen Harrier, Sita, disappeared in suspicious circumstances.| Hen Harrier Day
Read the full interview with award-winning wildlife photographer Richard Birchett, who is the lead judge in our 2024 Young Wild Photographer competition.| Hen Harrier Day
Hen Harrier Action's Young Wild Photographer competition is a photo contest for young people aged 5 to 16, with a new wildlife and nature theme each year. Enter here.| Hen Harrier Day
Alicia demonstrating how to draw a lapwing In the course of just two tranquil hours at Alicia Heyden’s Wildlife Art workshop on a rainy Sunday afternoon in Bristol, sponsored by Hen Harrier Action, participants learned to create accomplished colour drawings of upland birds including Lapwings, Jack Snipe, and of course Hen Harriers, with some impressive […]| Hen Harrier Day
Hen Harrier Action is delighted to announce that wildlife photographer Richard Birchett, who judged our Young Wild Photographer competition in 2024 and 2025,| Hen Harrier Day
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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
This new report from the RSPB documents devastating evidence of the continued illegal persecution of Hen Harriers in the UK's uplands, on or near grouse moors.| Hen Harrier Day
The Wildlife Crime Detection Dogs Appeal, launched on Skydancer Day, has reached its £10,000 target in just three weeks, thanks to generous supporters and friends.| Hen Harrier Day
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| 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
Our successful Christmas Appeal raised enough funds to satellite tag four young Hen Harriers in 2024 - Sita, Binbeal, Gilda and Adar. Learn more about them here.| Hen Harrier Day