{"id":307859,"date":"2025-12-09T23:55:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T23:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/307859\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T23:55:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T23:55:09","slug":"two-scottish-gamekeepers-on-trial-today-in-relation-to-alleged-killing-of-red-kites-in-cairngorms-national-park-raptor-persecution-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/307859\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Scottish gamekeepers on trial today in relation to alleged killing of Red Kites in Cairngorms National Park \u2013 Raptor Persecution UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A trial is underway today at Aberdeen Sheriff Court where two gamekeepers are accused of alleged offences in relation to the illegal killing of Red Kites in the Cairngorms National Park earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/raptorpersecutionuk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/red-kite-in-flight-rg.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"63452\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/raptorpersecutionuk.org\/2025\/12\/09\/two-scottish-gamekeepers-on-trial-today-in-relation-to-alleged-killing-of-red-kites-in-cairngorms-national-park\/red-kite-in-flight-rg\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/raptorpersecutionuk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/red-kite-in-flight-rg.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1600,1200\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;6.3&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;RONNIE GILBERT&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON Z 9&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1738494374&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;R GILBERT 2023&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;530&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;1100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0008&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Red Kite in Flight RG\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/raptorpersecutionuk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/red-kite-in-flight-rg.jpg?w=300\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/raptorpersecutionuk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/red-kite-in-flight-rg.jpg?w=840\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/red-kite-in-flight-rg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-63452\"  \/><\/a>Red Kite. Photo by Ronnie Gilbert<\/p>\n<p>A Head gamekeeper and an assistant gamekeeper were charged in May 2025 \u2018in connection with wildlife offences following enquiries into the death of red kites in the Strathdon area of Aberdeenshire in February, 2025\u2032 (see <a href=\"https:\/\/raptorpersecutionuk.org\/2025\/05\/02\/two-men-charged-in-relation-to-illegal-killing-of-red-kites-in-cairngorms-national-park\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>This is believed to be related to the discovery of a shot Red Kite in the Glenbuchat area of Strathdon between 3rd and 4th February 2025 (see <a href=\"https:\/\/raptorpersecutionuk.org\/2025\/02\/28\/red-kite-found-shot-dead-in-strathdon-area-of-cairngorms-national-park-police-scotland-appeals-for-information\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>The trial has been scheduled for two days.<\/p>\n<p>NB: Comments turned off as legal proceedings are live.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE 18.20hrs: Alleged killing of Red Kites in Cairngorms National Park \u2013 trial of two gamekeepers adjourned as Sheriff recuses himself due to RSPB membership (<a href=\"https:\/\/raptorpersecutionuk.org\/2025\/12\/09\/alleged-killing-of-red-kites-in-cairngorms-national-park-trial-of-two-gamekeepers-adjourned-as-sheriff-recuses-himself-due-to-rspb-membership\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">here<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A trial is underway today at Aberdeen Sheriff Court where two gamekeepers are accused of alleged offences in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307860,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-307859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}