A wildlife charity has been left “extremely disappointed” that its plea for urgent measures to protect the region’s barnacle geese has been rejected.
The RSPB has called on the Scottish Government to re-think it’s decision not to bring in a temporary wildfowling ban.
The “worst avian influenza outbreak ever in the UK” has claimed the lives of thousands of the migrating birds with dead swans also discovered at Carlingwark Loch in Castle Douglas.
