Wildlife Incident Investigation Scheme: EIR release

Information requested

I am interested in the contamination of wildlife by poisons and have been made aware of the Wildlife Incident Investigation Scheme. I understand that SASA is responsible for these investigations in Scotland and will have access to the final analytical (chemical) reports for each suspected poisoning incident. I am therefore submitting a request under the Environmental Information Regulation 2004 and the Freedom of Information Act for these final analytical reports (including the four-figure grid reference) for the following investigations (to be sent by email):

• 23024
• 23071
• 23034
• 23070
• 23077
• 23072
• 22117
• 21119
• 21171
• 21210
• 20130
• 20148
• 20162
• 20175
• 19002
• 19017
• 19033
• 19034
• 19171
• 16128
• 16189

Response

I enclose a copy of most of the information you requested. We do not have four figure grid references for all of the incidents you requested. Location (nearest town) data is included in the reports where known. For incident 20162, we only know that the incident occurred in Grampian.

An exception under regulation 11(2) of the EIRs (personal information) applies to some of the information requested because it is personal data of a third party and disclosing it would contravene the data protection principles in Article 5(1) of the General Data Protection Regulation and in section 34(1) of the Data Protection Act 2018. This exception is not subject to the ‘public interest test’, so we are not required to consider if the public interest in disclosing the information outweighs the public interest in applying the exception.

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EIR 202400431949 - Information Released - Annex

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