This week on Ours to Protect we’re looking at a project which has brought the magnificent white tailed sea eagle back to Ireland.
The eagle, once a common species here, was completely wiped out by the early 1900’s.
In a bid to re-establish our natural biodiversity balance, the National Parks and Wildlife Service has over the last 20 years worked on a project to import white tailed sea eagle chicks from Norway to Killarney National Park where they were released and have now dispersed throughout Ireland.
Sari Houlihan reports…
For more in this series listen in to Radio Kerry every Tuesday at 10.45am
