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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jack Dawe" data-source="post: 3644951" data-attributes="member: 55239">The response includes this: "We have identified raptor persecution as a wildlife crime priority. Each wildlife crime priority has a delivery group to consider what action should be taken, and develop a plan to prevent crime, gather intelligence on offences and enforce against it. The Raptor Persecution Priority Delivery Group (RPPDG) focuses on the golden eagle, goshawk, hen harrier, peregrine, red kite and white-tailed eagle. The group is working on developing tools to help tackle raptor persecution crimes."To make any progress at all then the "tools" absolutely must include measures to enable effective, independent monitoring.  How you'd achieve this I'm not sure. Short of electronic tagging and 24/7 guards, I don't see how you could monitor the gamekeepers reliably. Some kind of independent wardening of the raptors themselves might not be out of the question though - but that would be expensive and the government wouldn't dream of making the estates pay for it.</blockquote>