Based on a tipoff from sustainable hunters saying that a flock of storks had landed in the Western Bekaa locality of Safra, between Qob Elias and Ammiq, and that it might be killed by a known group of poachers, the anti-poaching unit (APU), affiliated with the Middle East Sustainable Hunting Center and SPNL, moved in after having informed the Lebanese army and military intelligence about the matter. Together with a group of professional hunters, the APU monitored the poachers’ movements for more than two hours and documented the entire incident. An army patrol moved to deal with the matter and interrogate them before they fired any bullets at the storks. This project is implemented with the support of the EV New LIFE project, under the EU fund.
