sea eagles

[dbrock]

found this
it is legal to poison foxs,
going to be tuff to put a stop to this one, pity


THERE SEEM to be three problems with the current laws in Ireland. The first is that some poisons banned elsewhere, such as alpha-chloralose, are legal in Ireland. The second is that controls on how poisons can be used may not be strict enough. It is illegal to use poison meat bait for control of grey crows and magpies. It is also illegal to use fallen livestock (such as dead lambs) as a meat bait. But current laws permit foxes to be poisoned with meat baits. This is an anomaly, says the eagle trust, which made a formal complaint to the European Commission on this matter in late 2009. The third problem is catching the poisoners. The Garda and rangers from the National Parks and Wildlife Service have carried out investigations, including raids of suspect farms. But a Government source accepted that the Garda would have to catch somebody in the act.

[eric]

poisoning animals in my opinion in pretty crumby foxes included. its a pretty horrible way to die and anyone thats seen a rat die from poison will know this. if foxes need to be culled shoot them.

[kieran]

On a positive note, a massive sea eagle swept past the car on the way to Clifden during the winter. Don't want to be too specific, but any twitchers can contact me by pm for details...

If you have not seen one, its amazing. Someone described it as a flying barn door - dude, you need a bigger barn! If I were a sheep in that area, I'd thank god it was a fish eagle!!!

FWIW