It was a wildlife conservation triumph, then came the corpses – podcast | Rewilding“Fair enough, if it was a select number of birds … ,” one farmer said to biodiversity writer Phoebe Weston during her trip to Scotland, “but when it’s mass murder, then it’s not acceptable.” Out on the cold west coast, there is a heated dispute about one of the country’s most successful ever rewilding programmes: the reintroduce of sea eagles to their natural habitat more than 50 years ago. The eagles, local farmers claim, are killing their lambs – by the hundreds. Yet there is no recorded evidence of even a single incident, and many conservationists insist it isn’t true. So, Helen Pidd asks, what is killing Scotland’s lambs? Source link Posted: 2025-01-10 04:54:39 |
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