Pioneering conservation project which has saved the iconic bird of prey in the south of Scotland now seeking to expand.
Majestic Scottish golden eagles are set to be exported to England and Wales for the first time in decades thanks to a boom in numbers north of the border. The pioneering South of Scotland Golden Eagle Project has spent six years relocating the iconic birds of prey from the Highlands to areas of the Borders and Dumfries and Galloway . In a major success story for conservationists, numbers in the south of Scotland have since soared from near wipeout to around 50.
They made a brief return in the early half of the 20th century as gamekeepers were sent to fight in two World Wars, before numbers steadily declined again. In Ireland, golden eagles were reintroduced around ten years ago and in 2018, the first chick hatched in more than a century. A separate project in Wales , Eagle Reintroduction Wales, is advancing in its plans to bring eagle chicks over from Scandinavia.
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