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		<title>Bird of Prey Killings Increase</title>
		<description><![CDATA[  The number of Scottish birds of prey being killed with poison in has increased. Last year 22 poisoning incidents were recorded by Police resulting in 27 dead birds of prey, including 19 buzzards, four red kites and two golden eagles.
Scotland&#8217;s Environment Minister Rosanna Cunningham said the figures were a &#8220;wake-up call&#8221; to those [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/news/bird-of-prey-killings-increase/001480/</link>
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		<title>Nevis Partnership to Close Down</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ The Nevis Partnership, a charity set up to manage and help enhance the Ben Nevis and Glen Nevis environment is to shut down following a funding crisis. The charity which formed in 2003 says it has sufficient funds to operate throughout 2011 but will wind down its operation during that time including the loss [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/news/nevis-partnership-to-close-down/001474/</link>
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		<title>Ben Nevis navigation cairns buried in snow</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Visitors to Ben Nevis summit may be surprised to learn that some of the newly erected 1.8m high cairns constructed to aid navigation have been virtually buried in snow. 
The MCofS Mountain Safety Advisor Heather Morning, warns hillwalkers and climbers visiting the summit of Ben Nevis to be extra vigilant.  The three cairns which [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/news/ben-nevis-navigation-cairns-buried-in-snow/001467/</link>
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		<title>Mountain Marathons Announced</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ This year looks set to offer gruelling mountain marathons at both ends of the country. First up is the Highlander Mountain Marathon set to take place somewhere in the north of Scotland in April, and later in the summer the Original Mountain Marathon (OMM) will be run in the south west of England.
The Highlander, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/news/mountain-marathons-announced/001459/</link>
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		<title>Injured climber airlifted after fall</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A male climber was airlifted to hospital yesterday (6 March) afternoon after a fall in the Loch Treig, near Roy Bridge in Lochaber. The police reported that the climber was in a party of three. A Sea King helicopter from RAF Lossiemouth attended the scene. The climber and his companions were located and the casualty [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/news/injured-climber-airlifted-after-fall/001456/</link>
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		<title>Public spending on Cairngorm railway criticised</title>
		<description><![CDATA[MSPs heard yesterday that Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) was so keen to develop the Cairngorm funicular project that it did so without proper regard for the cost and the risk to taxpayers&#8217; money. When the railway opened in 2001, the project was nearly £5million over budget and so far funding has exceeded planned spending [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/news/public-spending-on-cairngorm-railway-criticised/001449/</link>
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		<title>Walkers may subsidise Cairngorm railway</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The public agency which now runs the Cairngorm funicular railway has proposed that parking charges be introduced at the car park at the funicular to help fund running costs. Approximately half the people using the car park actually go on the funicular, the others being walkers, climbers and skiers.
The Scottish Parliament is due to release [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/news/walkers-may-subsidise-cairngorm-railway/001445/</link>
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		<title>Police name climbers killed in Glencoe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Police have named the two climbers killed in an avalanche on Buachaille Etive Mor as Christopher Walker, 29, an outdoor instructor from Keswick, and Robert Pritchard, 37, from New Malden. The two men were caught up in an avalanche as they climbed on Curved Ridge last wednesday.
Later in the week, two skiers had a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/news/police-name-climbers-killed-in-glencoe/001441/</link>
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		<title>Sign up and save the wilds, says MCofS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the highest impacts on wildness reported to the Mountaineering Council of Scotland (MCofS) is continued construction of new hill tracks. Ugly and environmentally damaging hill tracks are built every year with no requirement that they are considered through the planning system. Beautiful wild areas, appreciated by Scotland’s residents and visitors, are being blighted [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/news/sign-up-and-save-the-wilds-says-mcofs/001435/</link>
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		<title>‘Deer cull should continue’, says SWT</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The largest charity organisation dedicated to the protection of Scottish wildlife has called for starving deer to be culled across Scotland.  
Calling for an extension of the stalking season of female deer which ended earlier last month (15 February) in line with current legislation (Deer (Scotland) Act 1996), the Scottish Wildlife Trust (SWT) today [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/news/%e2%80%98deer-cull-should-continue%e2%80%99-says-swt/001433/</link>
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