“Fair enough, if it was a select number of birds … ,” one farmer stated to biodiversity author Phoebe Weston throughout her journey to Scotland, “but when it’s mass murder, then it’s not acceptable.”
Out on the chilly west coastline, there is a warmed conflict concerning among the nation’s most effective ever before rewilding programs: the reintroduce of sea eagles to their all-natural environment greater than half a century back.
The eagles, regional farmers declare, are eliminating their lambs– by the hundreds. Yet there is no documented proof of also a solitary case, and lots of guardians urge it isn’t real.
So, Helen Pidd asks, what is eliminating Scotland’s lambs?