Three golden eagles among birds found 'poisoned' on Scots estate

[RobinP]

Don't know if anyone else caught this on the news yesterday:

Three golden eagles among birds found 'poisoned' on Scots estate - Scotsman.com Business

The stats are just the ones that have been found, of course

[posie]

Thanks for the link, will be interesting to hear the results of post mortems, when they are printed, if they are, would you post them on here please, as I don't have access to it...thanks..

[rossy]

absolutely appaling, i just hope they get the culprit or culprits ,if the birds are found to have been poisoned, and publicy name and put photos in the papers, and fine them the max, how sad are they ? rossy.

[aland]

Sick is the only word for any one that even thinks about doing anything like this!!!.

[DOXHOPE]

Well Ive been involved with all forms of hunting all my life,but, I have always said when things like this are happening, that estate should somehow be stripped of being able to hunt or shoot..its happening all the time now, I was part of a hen harrier nest watch in north Northumberland a few years back and the female was shot when she had left her nest for her early morning flight...sickening

[Jaeviatrix]

Doxhope, what a fantastic idea! I wonder why we cannot do this, they must have some kind of events licence for all the people to gather and play with firearms! They could just withold them to the estate for 10 years!
I always think forcible relocation to some form of inner city estate would be a good thing to do with people who deliberately kill raptors.

[Rob_D]

I am very pleased to see some estates speaking out;

Scots landowners demand action to end illegal poisoning of birds of prey - Herald Scotland | News | Transport & Environment

Fair dues to them. It's refreshing to hear them condemn it outright. Maybe, this might put more pressure on the guilty. They do need to back their words with actions too.

Oh dear - just read that one of the signatures was from a guy singing the same old "isolated incident" hymn.

Andrew Salvesen, who runs pheasant shoots on his Findrack and Tillyfour estates near Banchory, said: “The reason I added my name and that of the estate as signatory is that these poisonings are isolated incidents that happen in Scotland from time to time.

Still seems to be a culture of denial with some who signed it.

[Blaze3]

Unfortunately it says everything that it is far easier to see eagles in the realatve "badlands" of the islands than in the eastern highlands and the Cairngorms.

I know that the Scottish Parliament has made the right noises, but can people who are close to the politics say what is actually happening on the political front (either at a national or local level)?

Also anyone know what steps has the Cairngorms Natonoal Park Authority taken?