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Individual licences may still be applied for, but they will be subject to “strict record-keeping and reporting requirements” and will be “closely monitored”.<\/p>\n

A statement from Raeshaw Estate said it would appeal against the move.<\/p>\n

“We share the frustration felt by many about Merrick’s disappearance but there is no evidence the estate or any of its employees were in any way responsible,” it said.<\/p>\n

“The estate has zero tolerance for raptor persecution and remains fully committed to respecting wildlife, nature and the environment.<\/p>\n

“Merrick’s last established position was not on land owned or managed by our estate.”<\/p>\n

It added that no employee had been charged as a result of the police investigation.<\/p>\n

“We welcome the presence of eagles on the estate, and we enjoy frequent visits from the species,” it said.<\/p>\n

The action comes just a day after police appealed for information after a four-year-old golden eagle was shot elsewhere in the region.<\/a><\/p>\n

The bird was discovered injured by a gamekeeper on an estate in Stanhope, near Tweedsmuir, on 15 January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Individual licences may still be applied for, but they will be subject to “strict record-keeping and reporting requirements”…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418972,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-418971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}