Italien – 19. 08. 2025

Update on raptor persecution in Germany

19.08.2025

Since January, our reporting centre for raptor persecution and wildlife crime (EDGAR) has registered 34 cases. These include 10 shootings, 6 trapping or snaring incidents, 11 confirmed cases of poisoning and 7 other methods of persecution. 

A total of 47 birds are affected, including buzzards, red kites, hawks and kestrels. Another red kite suspected of having been poisoned was reported to us last week in (Upper Bavaria). A CABS member subsequently recovered the bird and took it to the Bavarian State Office for Health and Food Safety in Oberschleißheim for examination.

Find out more about our work against raptor persecution in Germany here.