This chapter discusses the police response and investigation into wildlife crime, focusing on a specific case in North Yorkshire. It explores the delay in sending an appeal for information, the lack of interviews with gamekeepers and landowners, and the identification of the landowner where the crime took place.
In this special Age of Extinction mini-series from Science Weekly, Guardian biodiversity reporter Phoebe Weston explores the illegal killing of birds of prey on grouse moors, and asks why it is so difficult to solve these crimes. In the third and final episode, Phoebe finds out more about the pressures that drive people to commit raptor persecution, discovers how the police investigation into the case of Susie’s crushed chicks unfolded, and how Susie is doing now. Help support our independent journalism at
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