DECEMBER
1ST, 2015
By
George Psyllides
A
bird protection campaign in Cyprus has seen 36 bird trappers arrested and a
large number or poaching equipment destroyed, the Committee Against Bird
Slaughter (CABS) announced on Tuesday.
According
to a news release, more than 3,314 illegal limesticks and 155 nets were
destroyed during a bird protection camp conducted by CABS in cooperation with
the SPA (Foundation for Biodiversity) on Cyprus this autumn.
Dubbed
Operation Safe Passage, the camp covered five weeks from September to October
2015 and involved more than 30 conservationists and bird experts from six
EU-countries.
CABS
said its teams found and reported 162 illegal bird trapping sites equipped with
3,314 limesticks and 155 nets spanning more than 3.1 kilometres to the
authorities.
According
to CABS a total of 64 illegal electronic bird lures have also been discovered
by the activists and later confiscated by the police.
Hotspots
of illegal trapping activity this autumn were Ayios Nicolaos and Cape Pyla
inside the Eastern Sovereign Base Area (Dhekelia British military base) and
Avgorou and Liopetri in the Republic.
Volunteers
found 855 trapped birds from 26 different species.
“All
could be released after some days of intensive cleaning and rehabilitation in
the CABS office.”
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