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On that 'killing raptors with conservation status to keep the grouse population high', see https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-54295035 https:/

by clort 6y ago

On that 'killing raptors with conservation status to keep the grouse population high', see https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-54295035 https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-5429503... A golden eagles satellite tag stopped broadcasting in the middle of a grouse moor in 2016. It was found last year, several miles distant washed up on a river bank, wrapped in a sheet of lead.

tweetle_beetle 6y ago
> Tayside and Central Scotland Moorland Group, said it was too easy to blame grouse moors, adding: "Hopefully the police can get to the bottom of it and people can be removed from unfair suspicion." Literally the only group with a motive, and a strong historical precendent for similar activities in the industry, is upset that they are under suspicion. You couldn't make it up.