10,000 Birds
AUGUST 6, 2015
As we speak, in Serbia these birds are still hunted in August and September. The cargo was meant to be sold as delicacies to restaurants in Italy. Local bird protection NGOs have been demanding a hunting ban on both Quails and Turtle Doves ever since. Ten years ago, those flocks were reduced to a few hundred birds.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 26, 2013
Confiscated from a poacher in Brescia, Italy, this robin will be released to fly away into an uncertain world, where habitat is threatened and predators and poachers await. The survival of songbirds depends in part upon eliminating illegal hunting. Photo by David Guttenfelder, courtesy of National Geographic ).
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 27, 2022
” Incidentally, the large number of woodcocks hunted also established the basis for a study analyzing the importance of millipedes in the autumn-winter diet of the species. Anyway, that paper looked at the concentrations of heavy metals in soils, earthworms, and tissues of woodcocks in Quaderna Valley, northern Italy.
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