Mapping Raptor Persecution

Birds of prey inwards the Britain all portion a mutual enemy - the human race. Every calendar week the RSPB have reports of raptors beingness shot, trapped or poisoned. Many other incidents become unreported. This is why the RSPB has decided to liberate a centralized hub to monitor as well as rail raptor persecution inwards the UK.

The Raptor Persecution Hub provides an overview of the illegal handling of birds of prey inwards the UK. The hub consists of an interactive map of historical information on raptor persecution going dorsum to 2012. An interactive map visualizes the attacks geographically. The map tin live on filtered to exhibit the incidents of raptor persecution past times date, incident type, county as well as country.

The Raptor Persecution Hub includes a heat-map thought of attacks on birds of prey. If you lot switch to the heat-map thought (using the buttons nether the map) you lot tin clearly come across where nearly attacks bring been reported. The locations alongside the nearly raptor incidents are shown inwards dark as well as red. This heat-map thought shows that upland areas inwards North Yorkshire, the Scottish borders as well as Aberdeenshire are hot-spots for attacks on birds of prey. The RSPB believe that this is straight termination of the persecution of birds of prey on reason managed for grouse shooting.