Hen harrier brood management - moving chicks from persecution-risk moors - is a conservation intervention with welfare trade-offs.
Hen harrier brood management involves individual welfare costs to chicks removed from wild nests and reared in captivity, in exchange for claimed benefits of allowing more breeding attempts on managed moors. Critics argue the scheme enables continued persecution by removing consequences rather than enforcing the law. Welfare-positive hen harrier recovery requires enforcement of existing law, not schemes that accommodate wildlife crime.