Gamekeeper sentenced for raptor persecution illustrates wider problem of wildlife poisonings
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Stephanie Bird-Halton, Posted on:
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Licensing, Protected sites and species, Wildlife
![Dorset Police & Natural England with two containers of Cymag](https://naturalengland.blog.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/183/2023/02/Dorset-Police-Natural-England-with-two-containers-of-Cymag-c-RSPB-620x413.jpg)
By Stephanie Bird-Halton, National Delivery Director. Today, Paul Allen, a gamekeeper working on the Shaftesbury Estate in Dorset, was sentenced for offences of possession of dead buzzards, keeping of banned pesticides and failing to comply with conditions of shotgun and …