It's 48 years since white-tailed eagles were brought back to Scotland. Since then they have delighted conservationists and twitching tourists, who flock to see them on Scotland's west coast. but horrified sheep farmers, who blame them for lamb losses. So what does John Love, one of the people responsible for their reintroduction in 1975, think about them now?

• Has the environment changed too much to sustain them?
• Is the successful reintroduction of this apex predator a blueprint for bringing the lynx and wolf back to Scotland?
• And - should farmers be grateful to the sea-eagle reintroduction programme?

John is a legend in the conservation world and his reflections on these topics may not be quite what you would expect.

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