WTEs to be released in Exmoor NP

[Box Brownie]

Saw this on the newsfeed....

Wonderful news to follow on from the first successful release on the IoW

White-tailed eagles to be released in Exmoor National Park - BBC News

The birds of prey are set to be reintroduced to Exmoor as part of a conservation project.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[AdamSi]

If true, that is amazing news, I was lucky to see one last year here on Exmoor, flew over our house, one of the IOW ones that had been on a long expedition

 

[Box Brownie]

@AdamSi

Rather than news this is the 'definitive' information

Latest news - Roy Dennis Wildlife Foundation

Proactive wildlife management and innovative conservation research.

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Top of the page and link details here....

White-tailed Eagles in the South West - Roy Dennis Wildlife Foundation

It is now five years since we began the White-tailed Eagle Project on the Isle of Wight in partnership with Forestry England. In that time we have released a total of 37 young eagles and the project reached a major milestone last year when a pair of translocated birds, G405 and G471, reared a...

www.roydennis.org

 

[jerry12953]

Another project likely to go ahead (subject to the normal permissions) will be in Gwent and the Severn estuary.