Bases record 95% fall in trapping of ambelopoulia
The British bases have recorded a close to 95 per cent reduction in the illegal trapping of ambelopoulia, also known as black caps, it was...
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Man fined €22,400 for possession of banned game, trapping equipment
A 63-year-old man from Nicosia was slapped with a €22,400 fine after police found a large number of dead birds and trapping equipment at his...
Group of hunters to close Rizoelia roundabout on Sunday to press demands
An organised group of hunters, with the support of the newly-established Movement of Cypriot Hunters, plans to close the highway at the Rizoelia roundabout at...
Cypriot environmental activist ‘shapes and shakes’ Europe
‘Birdman’ Klitos Papastylianou, a Cypriot environmental activist, was among 28 personalities from the EU chosen by media outlet Politico as people who would most likely...
We need to protect, not kill God’s creatures
I am just reading the letter from S.K. in the Sunday Mail about the ambelopoulia debate. My little contribution is about the word ‘survival’ the Archimandrite used when according to him God sent...
Blitz on illegal bird trappers
XYLOFAGOU and Xylotympou police were kept busy over the last couple of days with a number of cases involving offences of illegal bird trapping in...
Eighty-year-old caught poaching ampelopoulia
GAME wardens caught an 80-year-old man illegally trapping wild birds using lime sticks and sound emitting devices in an area near Lefkara on Friday morning....
Police charge elderly man with bird trapping
Limassol police, in cooperation with the Game service, on Thursday arrested a 73-year-old man found in possession of bird trapping equipment and wild birds. During...
Ambelopoulia pic not a stunt to win votes, MP says
Evgenios Hamboullas, a DISY deputy for Famagusta, who was in hot water recently for posting a photo of himself on Facebook in front of a...
Cyprus using DNA test to identify ambelopoulia passed off as other meat
A DNA technique used to identify foods is being used in Cyprus to tackle illegal bird killing. The birds, around 22 species, are served illegally...
Must democracy be abandoned in the name of tradition
What sparks off the violence? Recently, a police inspector worriedly shook his head about the readiness of the Cypriot people to resort to violence. His...
Though ‘reprehensible’, no criminal case against MP Hamboullas
By George Psyllides PUTTING a criminal case together against an MP for eating illegal game was difficult, Attorney-general Costas Clerides told people who signed an...
Our View: Ambelopoulia stunt a clever bit of campaigning?
WITH parliamentary elections only five months away – assuming they are not postponed because of the Cyprus talks – parties have already begun the hunt...
House president, parties condemn MP’s songbird photo (updated)
By Andria Kades Ruling DISY MP Evgenios Hamboullas remained defiant on Tuesday as House President Yiannakis Omirou condemned the fact that he had uploaded a...
DISY MP posts photo of illegal game at dinner table (update 2)
By George Psyllides Ruling DISY MP Evgenios Hamboullas caused uproar over the weekend after he posted a picture on social media with a platter of...
The ‘big business’ of bird trapping in Cyprus
By George Psyllides A bird protection campaign in Cyprus has seen 36 bird trappers arrested and a large number or poaching equipment destroyed, the Committee...
Man charged for poaching
A 74-year-old man from Famagusta has been charged after police found 32 small birds and 272 limesticks – sticky twigs used for trapping birds. The...
Environment chairman calls for bird hunting plan to be tabled at parliament
By Constantinos Psillides Parliamentary Environment Committee chairman, AKEL’s Adamos Adamou is calling on the government to table the strategic plan for bird conservation before requesting...
A gastronomical crime
By Constantinos Psillides DESPITE the trapping of 2.5 million birds last year as part of a €15m a year industry, only 140 poaching cases involving...
Our View: Proposed changes to bird hunting all about votes
CONSERVATION groups are perfectly justified to protest about the devious way in which the government has attempted to legalise the hunting of black caps (ambelopoulia)....