![]() ![]() “We’re determined to find out who did this and bring them to justice to show that this sort of crime will not be tolerated,” he said. Speaking at another osprey nesting site, the Dyfi Osprey Project in mid Wales, where two chicks have hatched and are doing well, Taylor said it was a shocking attack. The egg was lost and the ospreys are still at the site without a nest to protect or chicks to nurture. Just hours after the female osprey laid an egg, an attacker arrived under the cover of darkness and chopped the nesting platform down with a chainsaw. Rob Taylor’s job will involve working with the four police forces in Wales, the UK government, other emergency services and wildlife and farming representatives to tackle countryside crime from fly-tipping to heating oil theft.īut the most headline-grabbing investigation he is involved in is the attack on the nest of a pair of ospreys at the Llyn Brenig reservoir in north Wales in May. ![]() The Welsh government on Thursday unveiled its wildlife and rural crime coordinator, the first role of its kind in the UK. ![]() His in-tray includes getting to the bottom of a dreadful act of sabotage on the nest of a spectacular bird of prey and making sure the arrival of tourists in the summer holidays does not lead to a spike in dog attacks on sheep and cattle. His patch takes in mountain ranges, farmland, rivers, estuaries and almost 1,000 miles of coastline. ![]()
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