"Access to a Scotlandwide market for wild goose meat is one way of helping secure a future sustainable balance between active
crofting and the greylag goose population."
After debate in the Scottish Parliament in November 1999, detailed changes were made (resulting from the consultation involved in all stages of the debate) to facilitate effective land management, political discretion in the matter of community legitimacy, and detailed provisions to allow for
crofting community ownership.
Under
crofting law, it is common grazing for nearby crofts.
John Morrison was born in 1920 on the Isle of Lewis to a
crofting family and left the local school, aged 12, with no qualifications.
William Fraser, of the
Crofting Foundation, added: "Crofters witnessed lambs being lifted up and dropped by the sea eagle and we had a post-mortem done on one lamb which confirmed talon marks on the carcass."
A spokesman for the Scottish
Crofting Foundation said Mr Al Fayed's outburst was "unhelpful".
"This case is quite interesting because there is no
crofting community living on the estate and I don't think the immediately neighbouring estates are likely to be interested."
Since the Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2003,
crofting communities have had the right to buy their local land, subject to ministerial approval, whether or not the landowners wanted to sell.
Highland GP and former chairman of the Scottish Committee of the Royal College of General Practitioners, Miles Mack, said: "It looked at the state of medical services in the Highlands and Islands, which was basically
crofting communities.