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Today in Focus

It was a wildlife conservation triumph, then came the corpses

Today in Focus

The Guardian

Daily News, News

4.65.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Biodiversity writer Phoebe Weston hears from farmers on the west coast of Scotland who claim they are losing hundreds of lambs a year in a case of rewilding gone wrong. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is The Guardian.

0:10.1

Today, a feathery who done it in the Scottish Highlands.

0:27.4

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1:48.8

What kind of altitude are we at now?

1:51.8

We are at probably about 350 metres.

1:57.2

Phoebe Weston is a biodiversity reporter at The Guardian.

2:01.8

And recently, her reporting took her to Argyle in the Scottish Highlands.

2:07.2

So I was walking up this hill with sheep farmer David Coulthard.

2:10.6

And right at the top, you can see in both directions.

2:14.0

We've got locks on one side and mountains on the other,

2:16.6

which get increasingly blue as they go into the background.

2:18.8

But we've got kind of a 360 view.

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