The name John Love will always be synonymous with the reintroduction of white-tailed eagles to Scotland.
John was the original Sea Eagle Reintroduction Project Officer back in 1975, living on the Isle of Rum in Western Scotland and releasing a total of 82 Norwegian sea eagles in what was at the time an ambitious and pioneering effort.
He wrote a highly acclaimed book about the project in 1983 (The Return of the Sea Eagle, Cambridge University Press) and he has now updated the story with his latest book, A Saga of Sea Eagles (Whittles Publishing).
So much has happened in the intervening 38 years. A second re-introduction phase took place between 1993-1998 with a further 56 sea eagles reintroduced in Wester Ross, and then more recently a third reintroduction phase began in 2007 with the East Scotland Reintroduction Project, the same year as the Irish Reintroduction Project began. Sea eagles are now firmly back where they belong, although unbelievably the persecution that originally wiped them out from these isles about 100 years ago is still a threat and still limits their potential spread to other parts of their former range.
A Saga of Sea Eagles is due to be published in April 2013 as a 224-page softback, priced at £19.99. Full details available on the publisher’s website here.
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Should be a good read. What a difference between someone like John A.Love doing possitive things for our country, and the scum that do the opposite by distroying the land and its wildlife.
Nice cover photo looks like it’s taken from Canna overlooking Sanday with Rum in the background