by Mark Entwistle mentwistle@obantimes.co.uk
A juvenile raven perched on a clift top in Scotland in May.
Photograph: RSPB.
No cull of ravens was sanctioned in Lochaber or on Skye or Raasay during 2018, according to Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH). However, the wildlife management agency confirmed to the Lochaber Times that six licences were issued over the past year in this area to protect livestock, which approved the killing of up to 144 individual birds in total. SNH has recently been at the centre of a row over information released under Freedom of Information requests, which record that farmers and landowners across Scotland have been granted licences to kill more than 4,000 ravens in the past four years.