NICOSIA, Cyprus – It's just before first light and the bird-catcher strings nets among the orange, pomegranate, fig and carob trees in his orchard. The sound of chirping emanates from inside a massive ...
It's a controversial practice and some say it's barbaric. Now a French group for the protection of birds has said that the hunting of birds by glue-trapping hurts the country's biodiversity. They add ...
ORLANDO, Fla., Oct. 22 (UPI) --Florida has cracked down on the trapping of songbirds -- which has been outlawed since the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918 -- by making it illegal to possess traps for ...
Malta has once again reopened the trapping season for finches, golden plovers and song thrushes, directly challenging the European Court of Justice (ECJ) and the European Commission, BirdLife said ...
Malta is a stopping-off point for some 170 species of birds migrating between Europe and Africa. But poachers kill or capture up to 200,000 wild birds every year — a problem widespread across the ...
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