An increase in bird trapping has been recorded, highlighting the failure of the police anti-poaching unit to tackle organised trapping groups, BirdLife Cyprus said in its autumn 2024 trapping report.

In 2007, the European Union also banned the import of wild-caught birds because of fears about the transmission of bird flu, incidentally saving millions of wild birds from capture and trade. However, ...

Bird populations declining signal urgent need for biodiversity protection; conservation and global cooperation can help.

Outside one of these towns, El Daba, I toured the farm of a white-bearded man with a bird-trapping operation so large that, even after the families of his six sons had eaten their fill ...

Committee Against Bird Slaughter (CABS) teams were able to film a total of 19 poachers pursuing their illegal hobby, the organisation said in a statement, highlighting that trapping is completely ...

The police said they would continue its work by disrupting trapping sites and catching those aiming to profit from the illegal practice. “We will once again work very closely with Bird Life ...

BirdLife activists, among others, have over the years helped highlight the illegal shooting of protected bird species, and monitor the countryside for hunting and trapping illegalities across the ...

They used a global dataset on the abundance of over 1,200 bird species in habitats with different levels of urbanization and combined it with data on plumage color. The team then analyzed the ...