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Despatches from the bird migration battlefront
With millions of birds illegally killed each year, working to protect them can seem like an overwhelming battle. That’s when inspirational, heart-warming success stories are needed. We hear first-hand accounts from conservation’s ‘frontline’ in Malta, Hungary and Lebanon.
Gábor Deák with Falco, the anti-poisoning sniffer dog © Szilard Morvai / BirdLife Hungary
By BirdLife International
When photojournalist David Guttenfelder covered the slaughter of songbirds in the Mediterranean for National Geographic in 2013, he said it was like covering a war. Every year, over 25 million birds are illegally killed as they fly in waves from northern Europe over the Mediterranean and the Caucasus. Like a war, it’s a trag
Illegal bird hunting last year was the highest in the recent past, with known casualties exceeding 2018 and 2019 combined, BirdLife said on Monday.
In a statement marking the end of the autumn hunting season on Sunday, the society said 210 protected birds were known to have been illegally shot last year.
The 2019 total was 99.
The numbers for the autumn hunting season – which had been running since September 1 – were also double the previous autumn hunting season, reaching 101. These numbers are only the tip of the iceberg as they represent only a small fraction of the total of illegally shot protected birds since most of those shot are collected by hunters, mainly for taxidermy, and never recorded, the society said.
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