“Hamlet”shot in the Scottish Borders.

Cost of a few lambs getting eaten anyway v lost revenue from tourism
as folk visit the area to see golden eagle, and eating lamb dinners.

Hmmm

Visit the Borders and see an eagle.  Now that is novel.  Do these do-gooder eagle introducers make good farmers losses which even if mainly unreported are known to be a lot more than “a few”.  Attributing the usual sentimentality to a wild creature whilst totally dismissing the cost to the people who feed the nation.
Hamlet!  Give me a cigar.

Bring in a local tourist tax to fund losses if necessary
on top of existing schemes

Wildlife tourism is a big deal.

So is losses in farming.

Yeah, farmers should get compensation for losses to
these birds bringing in tourists.

Farmers might even benefit long term as their shops
and B&B get a boost and prices rise.

The profile of the area would be lifted and marketing
guys can produce a little premium on produce as profile lifts.

In your opinion.  Any research to back this up? 

“Hamlet”shot in the Scottish Borders.
I thought he was poisened.

“Hamlet”shot in the Scottish Borders.


LoyalHoncho09 Feb 26 15:20Joined: 28 May 10 | Topic/replies: 21,249 | Blogger: LoyalHoncho's blog
I wonder how many new-born lambs this eagle savaged/killed/plundered over the last couple of years?


Two bleats or not two bleats ?  That is the question

Any research to back this up?


Open your eyes, there is loads of actual wildlife tourism

To be able to visit southern scotland/ borders instead
of far more inaccessible places would be a shoo in.

Open my eyes!  I have done and I see absolutely no justification for releasing birds of prey to breed in rural farmland.  It is a nonsense.

those who complain about re-introduction of birds of prey into where they evolved over tens of thousands of years might want to contemplate how spectacularly unnatural sheep-farming is

sheep belong and evolved for rugged terrain, like goats. they are not suited to heavy wet ground(hence they get terrible foot rot from it) and degrade the local ecostructure by reducing everything to grassland. farmers with their sheep have massively depleted scotlands biodiversity

sad to say but true. what the answer is i dunno. but i would not deny the majestic eagle the chance to fly. they were poisoned out of existence

similar arguments with deer. they have to be culled, unfortunately, as they no longer have any predators

I Live in rural farmland, and even have a bit.
No problem with hawks and eagles. They keep down the vermin.
We need the natural wildlife, top of the food chain to the bottom.