Alistair
Grant Political Correspondent
A ROW has broken out over
controversial plans to push forward with an “experimental” cull of hundreds of
ravens.
Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH)
has granted a group of farmers and gamekeepers a five-year licence to kill 300
birds in Perthshire.
But RSPB Scotland has
now claimed the scheme has little to do with protecting wading birds, as
claimed – and is instead a thinly veiled attempt to get rid of a perceived pest
to benefit grouse shooting estates.
It said it was “outraged” to
learn a licence had been given to Strathbraan Community for Waders, which says
it represents “some of the local land management…and private interests in the
area who value wading birds for their biodiversity, social and economic value
to the area and to Scotland more widely.”
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