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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mex" data-source="post: 1545051" data-attributes="member: 78476">Wild Freckle!!! At last! I have missed you on the Sea Eagle blogs! I don't know how this Forum works yet -sorry if I make a mistake. About Alma, I followed up the RSPB Mull officer's stunned reaction, by writing to Roseanna Cunningham, Scotland's Environment Minister at Holyrood. I told her I had copied it also to my MP, to an interested Minister at Westminster (Huw Irranca-Davies) and to the MEP, Chris Davies (all three have been supportive over eagle poisonings previously). Do any of you on this Forum feel like doing the same? The more the better! Are Scotland's legal penalties really so inadequate that these small fines are derisory to, for instance, 'an investment banker from Edinburgh' who is said to hold the grouse moor in Angus? Someone needs jailing for it to have any effect. Roseanna gave her support for the reintroduction of sea eagles in a previous video and this week has had to condemn the poisoning of this second eagle up there this summer. You may be interested to see the links at <a href="http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Environment/Wildlife-Habitats" target="_blank">http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Environment/Wildlife-Habitats</a><a href="http://www.scotland.gov.uk/News/Releases/2009/07/30164440" target="_blank">http://www.scotland.gov.uk/News/Releases/2009/07/30164440</a>Do read <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jul/30/conservation-scotland" target="_blank">http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jul/30/conservation-scotland</a> as it gives details of the estate manager. Does anyone feel like writing to the Procurator Fiscal about the inadequate penalties? Sorry to go on at length. My only motive is to hope that we can each and every one of us do something to help the eagles if only in this little way. It can have a snowball effect if more join in with support. Thanks.</blockquote>

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