In February 2003, a hillwalker found the corpse of a white-tailed sea eagle on the Morar peninsular near Mallaig, Western Scotland. Tests revealed this was the female of a nearby breeding pair and she had been poisoned. Her mate had been poisoned in the same area a year earlier, on land farmed by the Mackay family. Both birds were part of the sea eagle reintroduction project in Western Scotland.
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Although many members of the local community welcome sea eagles (and especially the revenue they generate from tourism), there is a small group of sheep farmers who want the government to remove the eagles because they consider them a threat to their lambs. No convictions have been secured for this incident.
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