{"id":72852,"date":"2016-07-29T08:15:42","date_gmt":"2016-07-29T08:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=b4f40294b5fc3ac6461c27b6907ac643"},"modified":"2016-07-29T08:15:42","modified_gmt":"2016-07-29T08:15:42","slug":"news-story-licence-for-buzzard-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=72852","title":{"rendered":"News story: Licence for buzzard control"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Natural England issued a licence last night permitting the control of up to 10 buzzards to prevent serious damage to young pheasants.<\/p>\n<p>The licence is time-limited with stringent conditions and is based on the law, policy and best available evidence. It follows rigorous assessment after other methods had been tried unsuccessfully over a 5-year period.<\/p>\n<p>It is stipulated that the licence must be used in combination with non-lethal measures and only on buzzards in and immediately around the animal pens &#8211; not on passing birds. These conditions are designed to make the licensed activity both proportionate and effective and we will continue to work with the applicant to assess this.<\/p>\n<p>Killing wild birds without a licence from Natural England is illegal.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Natural England has issued a licence for buzzard control.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72852"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}