RSPB calls for shooting estates to be licensed

Group says move would allow shoots to be banned if birds of prey are illegally killed, amid withdrawal from hen harrier scheme Grouse shooting estates should be licensed so that authorities have the power to ban them if birds of prey are illegally killed, the RSPB has urged, as it quit a government initiative to save the hen harrier in England.The hen harrier action plan is a Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs-led scheme in which landowners, shooting groups and conservation organ