irish times may 8 farmers poisioning birds of prey
In Kerry, the problem has reached almost endemic proportions. Dr Allan Mee took charge of a programme to reintroduce sea eagles in Kerry. But a spate of poisonings in recent weeks has brought to 13 the number of birds lost since their release in Killarney National Park three years ago. Another reintroduction programme, of red kites in Wicklow, has also seen birds die due to poisoning. In all, some 18 birds from those three groups have been poisoned between November 2007 and this week. Only two have survived. The sea eagles have been brought in from Norway. Like O’Toole in Donegal, Mee is now worried about the future of his project in Co Kerry.
We may love the nice dramatic pics of birds of prey ,but as this article shows ,we dont want them back in Ireland.The birds have been killed by different poisons, sometimes used in cocktail form. The pattern has been the same; pieces of meat or the carcasses of dead animals have been laced with poison. Some of the poisons can be obtained legally, others are banned outright, such as paraquat. Others are very strictly licensed for limited use, such as carbofuran, which was found in the bodies of two of the sea eagles recently killed
Theses poisionings have been carried out by a small group of indviduals,and the law here is not strong enough to convict them
sorry for this depressing post after such lovely pics
a thousand kisses deep..
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