In the second case there were about 400 bundles of osprey feathers, the value of which was about £1,555.
My noble friend behind me said that on a matter like the ospreys, offenders might be sent to prison.
Twenty-four thousand people went out last summer to get a glimpse of the osprey breeding.
The result has been a complete revival of wildlife—deer, foxes, badgers, eagles, osprey and red squirrels.
Then we would have our employees landed with the same penalty as someone who takes osprey eggs.
Ospreys have been driven off their nests by people who come to look at them.
After all, 26,000 visitors saw the ospreys in a period of about two months last year.
It was only legislation, and the very strong penalties imposed by it, which prevented the osprey being wiped out altogether.
