Best of 2023, Killing the Skydancer: episode two, The Perfect Crime

In this special Age of Extinction mini-series from Science Weekly,
which first aired in August 2023, the Guardian’s biodiversity
reporter, Phoebe Weston, explores the murky world of the illegal
killing of birds of prey on grouse moors, and asks why it is so
difficult to solve these crimes. In episode two, Phoebe speaks to
the people trying to protect these rare birds but, as she digs
deeper, she encounters a surprising silence around the killing of a
hen harrier’s chicks. Help support our independent journalism at
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