It was a wildlife conservation triumph, then came the corpses - podcast

Biodiversity writer Phoebe Weston hears from farmers on the west coast of Scotland who claim they are losing hundreds of lambs a year in a case of rewilding gone wrong"Fair enough, if it was a select number of birds ? ," one farmer said to biodiversity writer Phoebe Weston during her trip to Scotland, "but when it's mass murder, then it's not acceptable."Out on the cold west coast, there is a heated dispute about one of the country's most successful ever rewilding programmes: the reintroduction of sea eagles to their natural habitat more than 50 years ago. Continue reading...