EU Commissioner on Setting, Oceans and Fisheries Virginius Sinkevicious has written to the Justice, Inside and Agriculture ministers, noting the necessity for rapid measures to scale back the degrees of unlawful migratory birds trapping and amendments in related laws that can create two classes of birds in terms of imposing fines.
Within the letter, dated October 12, on the problem of unlawful chicken trapping in Cyprus and the current amendments of the laws on the Safety and Conservation of Wild Birds and Prey, the EU commissioner notes his deep concern for the persistent drawback of trapping and killing wild birds, notably migratory species passing by way of Cyprus, with using strategies prohibited by a related EU directive on birds, similar to nets and lime sticks.
Sinkevicious factors out that the Fee has repeatedly expressed the necessity for efficient enforcement in Cyprus of the European laws banning such practices.
The Fee additional notes that despite the slight discount in using nets, in contrast with the excessive ranges of 2002, monitoring by the Cyprus Birds Affiliation signifies that web trapping in Cyprus continues.
Numbers present that 280 thousand birds had been killed final fall within the monitoring space, principally areas managed by the Republic of Cyprus. It’s clear, the Commissioner notes, that these ranges stay extreme.
The Fee says that in response to info at its disposal, lime stick trapping has elevated by 270% of the previous three years, primarily because of a a lot decrease effective for this specific type of trapping.
Αccording to Recreation and Fauna Service numbers, income from the unlawful sale of songbirds, a a lot wanted delicacy, attain as much as 15 million euro yearly.