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RSPB
abbreviation for
- Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
Example Sentences
More than 1,300 protected birds of prey – from hen harriers to golden eagles - have been killed across the UK over the past 15 years, according to the RSPB.
"That means if any offences occur on a particular shoot that estate can lose the ability to shoot on there. The licence is revoked for a number of years," explained Mark Thomas, the RSPB’s head of investigations.
Beccy Speight, chief executive of the RSPB, said: “We need all political parties to tackle the nature and climate crisis as one.”
The research was carried out by conservation experts at the University of Plymouth, the RSPB, and Manchester Metropolitan University.
Cath Jeffs, the RSPB's then Cirl Bunting Project Manager and a co-author of the new study, said: "Cirl buntings have been a pioneering conservation success story. That they are singing once again in Cornwall is testament to the hard work by the many people involved. That they are singing like cirl buntings demonstrates how wonderful nature is."
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