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<p>An overview of Natural England's (NE) Science Advisory Committee review of the
Brood Management Trial was published in this NE blog on 16 March 2023: <a href="https://naturalengland.blog.gov.uk/2023/03/16/update-on-the-hen-harrier-brood-management-trial/"
target="_blank">naturalengland.blog.gov.uk/2023/03/16/update-on-the-hen-harrier-brood-management-trial/</a>.
A copy is attached with this answer. They advised that further social science data
on changing attitudes, was needed. Consequently, The Brood Management partnership
has applied for a licence for two years (2023-2024) to allow for further data to be
collected. NE’s wildlife licensing service assessed this two-year licence application
and issued the licence on 4 May 2023.</p><p> </p><p>The trial is designed to understand
how the availability of brood management may affect the persecution of all hen harriers.
All hen harriers in England are therefore part of the trial, and research is underway
on survival rates of wild reared hen harriers satellite-tagged by NE, before and after
the availability of brood management. Of the 32 hen harriers reared in captivity and
released with satellite tags, 10 are still alive, six dead birds have been recovered
(five confirmed died naturally, one currently under investigation), and 16 have stopped
transmitting and have not been recovered. The status of all tagged hen harriers tracked
by NE is regularly published on this page: <a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/publications/hen-harriers-tracking-programme-update/hen-harrier-tracking-update"
target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/publications/hen-harriers-tracking-programme-update/hen-harrier-tracking-update</a>.</p>
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