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Updated: April 7, 2021, 5:10 pm
Farm leaders want action to prevent sea eagles attacking and killing livestock.
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Farm leaders have called for urgent action to help prevent sea eagles from attacking and killing livestock.
The chief of Scotland’s farming union, NFU Scotland (NFUS), says not enough is being done to protect livestock from white-tailed sea eagles.
NFUS president, Martin Kennedy, said some farmers and crofters had endured decades of predation by eagles, including new-born lambs being killed and carried away by the birds, and urgent action was needed to address the problem.
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