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    Sep 24, 2020 3 minutes

    Leave the falcons be

    Following your article about Dave Slater, Natural England, issuing licenses for taking peregrine falcons from the wild for falconry (June 2020, Wild news), I feel shocked by this decision. In his blog, he states “numbers are greater than at any time since detailed recording began in the 1930s”, without considering how low the populations were at this time “just 47 breeding pairs in England by the 1970s”.

    This decision is inhibiting the

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