Farmers Outraged By Lamb-Eating Sea Eagles
Chalk it up to the Empire to introduce a population lamb-eating sea eagles to a sheep-farming town. The Scottish Crofting Foundation has seen the loss of 200 lambs in the past year. The sea eagles used to roam Scotland before going extinct early in the 20th century. Since then, small farms raising sheep and cattle have popped up, but are now being threatened by the reintroduction of the eagles. Farmers suggest taking young chicks from the nests and placing them elsewhere. The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) denies the claim of the slaughtered lambs saying that the program has been outstandingly successful. They think the farmers are wrong in their estimates of the lamb killings, saying that when they examined a sea eagle nest, they only found scavenged lamb bones. One RSPB representative said, "The number (of lambs) that they are suggesting is extremely surprising to us." We wonder why a conservation group would introduce a lamb's natural prey to a lamb-farming community. Interestingly enough, the eagles generated 1.5 million pounds of wildlife tourism money. It is not known whether the farmers have seen any of this tourism money to compensate for the business they lose every time a sea eagle eats one of their lambs.
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