Hi all, just had a contact from David Conlin
(below) in Berlin, who is thrilled with the response from Australia,
and who says a big thank you to those of you who have helped out in the
past 24 hrs, and encouragement for others to help inundate the EU with
protests. The campaign is going well.
David said, " Have a look at this page as well
http://www.proact-campaigns.net/proact_france/stone_traps_02.html
We also campaigned on this with a previous French Environment minister
- one M Sarkozy.
We have submitted a paper with photo and video documentation on this
form of 'traditional' and non-selective trapping and have a date next
week with the EC Environment Directorate to present our case for
banning it. CABS teams visited these sites in winter 3 years running
and found enough evidence (we believe) to show that they are not
acceptable.
Otherwise we have similar anti-trapping campaigns and field operations
in Italy, Spain and the Balkans."
Cheers,
Jill
Jill Dening
Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia
26° 51' 41"S 152° 56' 00"E
Jill Dening wrote:
Hi Everyone,
A dear friend of mine, David Conlin, is a member of a European group
called Proact, which works against the slaughter of wild birds in
Europe. Every year he goes to Malta for the raptor migration and gets
roughed up by hunters when he is not careful. He has sent me the
following link to a dreadful video, and asks for letters of protest to
be sent to the European authorities to pressure them to change the
laws. The French hunt Northern Lapwings legally. David said that when
he was a lad the fields were thick with lapwings, but no longer.
Even if you do nothing, it's worth looking to see how the other half -
the so-called civilised half - lives.
http://www.komitee.de/en/index.php?youtube_france
Cheers,
Jill
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Jill Dening
Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia
26° 51' 41"S 152° 56' 00"E
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