{"id":528289,"date":"2026-04-13T09:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T09:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/528289\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T09:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T09:54:08","slug":"government-pledges-1m-to-get-golden-eagles-back-in-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/528289\/","title":{"rendered":"Government pledges \u00a31m to get Golden eagles back in England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The return of the eagles to UK skies has not always been seen as a good idea by everyone, though.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Farmers have previously raised concerns about the threat the golden eagles could cause to lambs. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The birds are one of the fastest animals on the planet, reaching speeds of up to 200mph. Their exceptional vision also means they can spot something as small as a rabbit moving three miles away.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ed Parr Ferris, species recovery manager at Forestry England, the organisation that manages England&#8217;s public forests, said:<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We do recognize they can take small lambs very occasionally as a part of their diet, but that&#8217;s rare.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He also said bringing golden eagles back can help to control species like foxes and badgers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The return of the eagles to UK skies has not always been seen as a good idea by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":528290,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-528289","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\/528289","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=528289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/528290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}