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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mono" data-source="post: 3487436" data-attributes="member: 32540"><p>There hasn't been a thriving population of Golden Eagles in the Lake District for over a century. There has been a rump population that has steadily declined to its inevitable end. With the Victorian explosion in game shooting and associated industrial game-keeping it became cut off from the contiguous UK population and that was that. It has nothing to do with walkers or even less right to roam activists. The Lake District is not big enough to hold it's own population of Golden Eagles if it was devoid of outdoor enthusiasts, so the emphasis of Golden Eagle conservation in the UK should be to end the illegal persecution that is preventing the expansion of the core population in Scotland, when that core is solid it will expand as a contiguous area and reach the Lake District in due course.</p></blockquote><p></p>