In the last few minutes, the Scottish Parliament (with the exception of the Scottish Tories) has voted overwhelmingly in support of the Wildlife Management & Muirburn Bill!
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Shalimar
RSPB Scotland are appealing for information following the sudden, suspicious disappearance of a satellite-tagged Hen Harrier in Glen Esk in Angus.
The tag fitted to ‘Shalimar’ a young female Hen Harrier, which fledged from a nest on the National Trust for Scotland’s Mar Lodge Estate in Aberdeenshire last summer, was functioning as expected before data transmissions unexpectedly and suddenly stopped on 15 February.