RURAL Crime officers are appealing for information after 25 sheep were stolen from a Denbighshire field yesterday. North Wales Police s Rural Crime Team say the 25 Texel cross fat lambs were taken from Bryneglwys, near Corwen. A statement from the force read: 25 Texel cross fat lambs stolen from Bryneglwys on Thursday. The animals have a blue mark on their front and to their rump. Has to be someone who knows the business to gather, transport and hold and then slaughter or sell. Anyone with information should call 101.
Mystery around unauthorised osprey nest after original hacked down by chainsaw
Rural police have asked the public not to interfere in the wake of outrage over felling of original site
Updated
The ospreys stare at where their nest was before it was cruelly hacked down (Image: North Wales Wildlife Trust)
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Cruel vandals armed with a chainsaw chopped down an osprey nest a day after the protected bird laid its first egg of the season.
The platform was chopped down overnight, sending the nest plunging into the waters below at Llyn Brenig reservoir in Denbigh Moors, north Wales in a horrendous wildlife crime.
Springwatch presenter Iolo Williams has pleaded for people to come forward with information while a member of the public has offered a £2,000 reward if anyone has details which leads to a prosecution.
Police have pledged to pull out all the stops to find the culprits responsible for the crime and has called on people to come forward with information
Protected osprey nest destroyed in horrendous chainsaw attack
Police to investigate as nest on Llyn Brenig Lake was chopped down just hours after bird had laid its first egg of the breeding season
2 May 2021 • 8:09pm
There are just five pairs of ospreys in Wales with the birds and eggs protected under the Wildlife & Countryside Act.
Credit: Wales News Service
Police are investigating a horrendous wildlife crime on a protected osprey nest after vandals used a chainsaw to destroy the site.
Conservationists have condemned the attack at Llyn Brenig Lake in Wales as “senseless, cruel and wanton”.
The culprits are suspected to have arrived by boat on Friday evening before chopping down the artificial nesting platform.
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