Share:Paris - France’s top administrative court on Friday banned more traditional techniques for hunting birds following the banning of glue hunting in June, in a ruling welcomed by environmental pressure groups but denounced by hunters. The techniques banned in the new ruling by the State Council include practices popular in the southwest of France and the Ardennes region of the east of the country, such as hunting with nets or bird cages. Activists say that 150,000 birds die annually in France from non-selective hunting techniques such as glue traps and nets at a time when Europe’s bird population is in free-fall. “While biodiversity is collapsing and with it bird populations, France had to be pushed into a corner by the threat of an exemplary condemnation by the EU Court of Justice,” said its president Allain Bougrain-Dubourg. “For us, traditional hunts are the very essence of our passion for hunting and will always be at the heart of the defence of our hunting practices,” said its president Willy Schraen.

Source: The Nation August 06, 2021 17:15 UTC