10,000 Birds
AUGUST 6, 2015
Turtle Doves have been declining in Europe since the 1970s, and in this century alone, the continent has lost 40% of its population of the species. In all European Union countries to the north and east of Serbia (except Romania), Turtle Doves are strictly protected. Money and effort are being invested in that protection.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 26, 2013
If you are a migratory bird in Europe and western Asia, this is your sweet spot. Volunteers with the Committee Against Bird Slaughter sneak into a grove where a farmer has just placed lime sticks to snag unwary birds. The survival of songbirds depends in part upon eliminating illegal hunting.
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 26, 2018
Hence, vultures rely on a feeding station where they are provisioned with slaughter house offal and occasional carrion. We approach a low limestone cliff topped with separate rock formations, like a medieval city wall topped with parapets that offered protection to defenders. And the cliff was white with bird droppings.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 6, 2021
I was especially interested in “To Hide From God,” the chapter on songbird slaughter and protection in Cyprus. Has it really been 21 years (almost) from the publication of Jonathan Franzen’s New Yorker article, “ Emptying the Skies ,” six years since the documentary with the same name?
10,000 Birds
JULY 21, 2022
Wikipedia also has an interesting paragraph hinting at observation bias in ornithologists: “At the continental scale, saddle-billed storks preferred protected areas that have a higher extent of open water compared to areas without the storks. The benefit for the wasps is that they get to keep a beautiful pet.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 9, 2014
Written by Mark Avery, Conservation Director for the RSPB (Royal Society for the Protection of Birds) for nearly 13 years, this book explores the reasons for the extinction of the Passenger Pigeon from the point of view of the outsider. 8) that could not possibly happen in Europe. Or the absence of legal protection.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 9, 2012
Earlier this month I received an email from someone who cares a great deal about birds and their conservation, let’s protect his anonymity and call him Mr White. Further research revealed two more companies in Britain and several others across Europe all engaged in the same shooting tourism.
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