Golden eagles breed at Highlands rewilding estate for first time in 40 years A pair of golden eagles has successfully reared a chick in an artificial nest at Trees for Life’s flagship Dundreggan rewilding estate in Glenmoriston between Loch Ness and Skye – marking the first known return of the spectacular birds of prey to breed at the Highlands…
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Criminals show their backsides to Scottish government yet again
I’m sure that Nicola Sturgeon hasn’t personally read my email to her about the poisoned White-tailed Eagle found in the Cairngorms National Park (on a grouse moor) but if she had, I bet the bit that would have stuck in her mind would be the analogy that the shooting industry is showing her and the…
Another disappeared eagle – from RPUK and Chris Packham
Three things, please. Read this: Golden eagle Tom disappears in suspicious circumstances on Scottish grouse moor Watch this: 3. Sign this: https://wildjustice.eaction.org.uk/saveourskydancers Thank you.
Let’s hope not
I hope this cartoon by Mr Carbo is unnecessarily pessimistic. It remains to be seen whether the SNP government is prepared to act on wildlife crime and unsustainable moorland management. They have acted on Mountain Hares but if they thought that was enough then they have not read the mood of the Scottish electorate nor…
Dear First Minister – what you told Nicola Sturgeon (2)
Yes, back to that poisoned White-tailed Eagle found on a grouse moor in a National Park. Why? Because it’s just as shocking and awful this week as it was last week. Nicola Sturgeon and Roseanna Cunningham may feel that they had a bit of a torrid time on this subject last week but, after the…
Dear First Minister – what you told Nicola Sturgeon
Many readers of this blog and of my newsletter have written to Nicola Sturgeon and/or Roseanna Cunningham about the finding of a poisoned White-tailed Eagle on a grouse moor in the Cairngorms National Park. Here are just some examples of ones that I have been sent. You notice they are all polite, personal and well-written….
Dear First Minister – from Bob Elliot and OneKind
Dear Cabinet Secretary (and copied to First Minister Sturgeon) I write as the Director of OneKind and also from a personal point of view regarding the recent very bad news of yet another poisoned bird of prey discovered on a grouse moor, and my wider concerns about the killing of our wild animals. You may remember…
Dear First Minister – from Laurence Rose
Dear First MinisterI have just written a book, publication date 1 October, called Framing Nature – conservation and culture. I’ll send you a copy, hoping that you’ll have a few minutes one evening to read the first few lines of the introduction, which opens with the tragic story of the Scottish wildcat – a sad…
Dear First Minister – from Jon Dunn
Jon Dunn is a birder, author and more, as his letter to Nicola Sturgeon about the poisoning of a young White-tailed Eagle in Strathdon demonstrates. Dear First Minister, I don’t expect you to have heard of me – though I have to say as a Shetland resident, I have admired the SNP’s governance of Scotland…
An interesting paper
This paper is interesting but it draws an odd policy conclusion in the abstract even though not in the discussion. It suggests that high levels of generalist predators may be a problem for ground-nesting birds in particular (not earth-shattering) but then in the abstract says ‘If we value our ground‐nesting bird species, consideration needs to…