Official
complaint lodged with EU says rules breached on hunting and trapping
Kim Willsher in
Paris
Mon 1 Apr
2019 17.48 BSTLast modified on Tue 2 Apr 2019 07.32 BST
Bird
protection campaigners are to lodge an official complaint with the European Union accusing
France of breaking rules on hunting and trapping and failing to protect
endangered species.
The Ligue
pour la Protection des Oiseaux (LPO) is using the 40th anniversairy of
the EU’s
“bird directive”,
which outlaws the “massive or non-selective” killing of birds to highlight what
it deems cruel and illegal methods.
These
includes gluesticks covered in adhesive
lime and set in trees or bushes to catch birds when they land, traps
that crush the birds with heavy stones, and nooses.
The LPO
says it was forced to act after the French government refused to respond to its
complaints and the state council approved gluesticks, saying the method was traditional
and there was no other satisfactory method of trapping the birds.
Stone
crush traps, once banned for a century, were legalised in France in 2005 and
are also considered unnecessarily cruel as often the birds do not die
instantly.
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