Responsible Hunting
By Wouter Langhout Lead is bad for you. Already in Roman times, people were apparently experiencing the harmful effects of consuming lead, which was then used as a sweetener for wine. Logically, over time, the use of lead has become more and more restricted, and its use in
By Luca Bonaccorsi, Birdlife.org Exhausted migratory birds are trapped in glue, in agony from thirst and exhaustion. Squeezed to death, tangled in fine nets, millions are massacred this way every year before they can reach their breeding grounds. In an Egyptian market, ducks
Nature Conservation Egypt (BirdLife in Egypt) and the BirdLife International Secretariat released today a study on the socio-economic drivers of hunting and trapping practices in Egypt . With an estimated 6 million birds killed and trapped illegally every year, Egypt is one
The scientific paper on illegal killing of birds in the Mediterranean titled “Preliminary assessment of the scope and scale of illegal killing and taking of birds in the Mediterranean” was published online in the journal Bird Conservation International. Bird
By Stuart Butchart, Birdlife.org Scientists from BirdLife International estimate that 20 locations in the Mediterranean may be responsible for eight million individual birds being illegally killed or taken alive each year. In the paper Preliminary assessment of the scope and
Songbirds are a culinary delicacy in Cyprus — but catching and eating them is illegal. Even so, the practice is on the rise and could be threatening rare species. Shaoni Bhattacharya It wasn’t until I saw the blade glinting in the sunlight that I realized how grave the
After Birdfair, the fight goes on to protect the illegally hunted migratory songbirds of the Mediterranean fly-way. During their twice-annual migration, birds face two natural hurdles along the Africa-Eurasia Fly-way: the Mediterranean Sea and the Sahara desert. Even if they
Record numbers in the tens of thousands attended the 27th British Birdwatching Fair held at Rutland Water this weekend. Known as the Birdwatchers’ Glastonbury, the annual event organised jointly by the Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust and the RSPB was the ‘best
In the land of the cedar, having feathers is not a good thing. Every year, masses of migratory birds – more than 250 species – stop over in Lebanon, and especially in the Bekaa Plain. For many, it is a journey’s end : they end up riddled with lead pellets. Men lie in
Unlawfully shot, trapped or glued: tens of millions of birds are being killed illegally each year across the Mediterranean, according to the first scientific review of its kind to be carried out in the region by BirdLife International. BirdLife and Partners have uncovered