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Heartless vandals take chainsaw to Osprey nest next to Welsh reservoir Believe me they will receive the full force of the law if we do catch them
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Vandals used a chainsaw to bring down an Osprey s nest in a night-time raid.
The saw can be heard buzzing in a CCTV clip before the nest platform topples over .
Rare and protected osprey nest chopped down in horrific act of vandalism
The birds had only just laid their first egg of the season at Brenig Lake
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The osprey nest and platform was cut down using a chainsaw (Image: North Wales Police)
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A rare and protected Osprey nest was chopped down in Wales, police say
Police in Wales want to know who cut down an osprey nesting platform on Friday, sending the rare and protected birds’ nest and their freshly-laid egg crashing into the lake below.
The Brenig Osprey Project said in a post on social media that the “horrific act of vandalism” happened at about 9:45 p.m. at Brenig Lake, a reservoir in Northern Wales.
There were cameras on the platform and the organization had just celebrated the breeding pair laying an egg the day before.
The North Wales Police Rural Crime Team said in a tweet on Saturday that they believe the suspect or suspects arrived by boat to cut down the platform.
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A platform with an osprey nest on top has been cut down with a chainsaw.
The protected bird of prey laid its first egg a day before the nest was felled at Llyn Brenig, which borders Conwy and Denbighshire, police said.
It has been branded a horrific act of vandalism by the Brenig Osprey Project in a Facebook post.
North Wales Police Rural Crime Team said it suspected the culprits possibly arrived by boat to chainsaw the platform on the lake. Wildlife crimes always have a motive and we believe the person who did this had a strong motive to rid the area of ospreys and particularly the lake, it tweeted.