Posts tagged with "limesticks"

Repeat bird trapper caught red handed using limesticks Cyprus

Repeat bird trapper caught red handed using limesticks

April 15th, 20192472 A Paralimni bird trapper was caught red-handed for the sixth time, the Committee Against Bird Slaughter (Cabs) and the SPA (Stiftung Pro Artenvielfalt Foundation) said on Monday. According to Cabs, he was caught on Friday in possession of 12 limesticks and two freshly killed blackcap birds. The NGOs said the man is facing a fine of...
Bird activists get into scuffle with poacher Cyprus

Bird activists get into scuffle with poacher

October 11th, 20184185 Members of the Committee Against Bird Slaughter (Cabs) were attacked and injured while monitoring known trapping sites around Kofinou on Wednesday, they said on Thursday. At one site, limesticks and an active electronic caller were found. “Whilst waiting for game wardens to arrive, a woman appeared and began removing and killing...
Man remanded over arms cache, including grenade launcher Cyprus

Man remanded over arms cache, including grenade launcher

April 4th, 20182439 A 38-year-old man from Famagusta was remanded in custody for eights days on Wednesday in connection with possession of arms and explosives, including an anti-tank missile launcher. The arms cache was found by police during a search of the man’s home in a rural area of Paralimni on Tuesday. Officers found an RPG launcher along...
MPs accused of ‘pandering to poachers’ Cyprus

MPs accused of ‘pandering to poachers’

November 7th, 20173893 Changes to the hunting law that are due to be discussed at the House on Wednesday have been described by critics as “pandering to poachers”. They said proposed changes to the current law set to be discussed by the House environment committee were extremely dangerous at a time where the situation of illegally killing birds was...
We need to protect, not kill God’s creatures Letters

We need to protect, not kill God’s creatures

October 29th, 20171740 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 these songbirds to the Israelites when they had to survive in the desert. I will not go into the semantics...
Nearly 200 limesticks seized in Larnaca village Cyprus

Nearly 200 limesticks seized in Larnaca village

September 10th, 20174344 Police carried out an anti-poaching operation early Sunday, seizing 184 limesticks and a number of dead wild birds in the Larnaca district. The operation was carried out around 2am. It was followed by a search at the home of a 54-year-old suspect in a Larnaca village. Police said they found bird-sound devices on the...
Conservationists urge MPs to reject controversial hunting law bill Cyprus

Conservationists urge MPs to reject controversial hunting law bill

June 29th, 20174197 Conservationists made a last-ditch appeal to MPs in Thursday to reject a bill that introduces relaxations and loopholes to the hunting law, making it harder to tackle poaching. The government bill looks set to be approved by parliament on Friday, despite opposition, including from restaurateurs and game wardens who will be tasked with...
Objections to controversial song-bird bill Cyprus

Objections to controversial song-bird bill

June 15th, 20176526   A government bill allowing the consumption at restaurants of songbirds, provided they have been cooked in advance by the hunters who killed them, is nothing but mockery that will no longer be tolerated, the association of food and beverage establishments charged on Thursday. In a statement, the association protested clauses...
Eighty-year-old caught poaching ampelopoulia News in Brief

Eighty-year-old caught poaching ampelopoulia

October 7th, 20162461 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. According to police, the wardens came across the man at about 8am, catching him red-handed and confiscated the device used to reproduce bird songs which attract them to the lime...
CABS accuses British bases of inaction on bird trapping, bases hit back Cyprus

CABS accuses British bases of inaction on bird trapping, bases hit back

September 12th, 20162109 The Committee Against Bird Slaughter (CABS) said on Monday they had launched an international protest to convince the new British government under Prime Minister Theresa May, to take a stand against widespread illegal poaching on the Eastern Sovereign Base Area (ESBA) in Cyprus. “This primarily requires a massive reinforcement of...
Fewer migratory birds being trapped in Cyprus, CABS says Cyprus

Fewer migratory birds being trapped in Cyprus, CABS says

April 11th, 20161401 Spring trapping has been showing clear signs of decrease in the past few years and more birds are crossing Cyprus safely, Alexander Heyd, Committee Against Bird Slaughter (CABS) General Director, has said. Since the beginning of April, the environmental organisation Committee Against Bird Slaughter (CABS) and Pro Biodiversity...
Though ‘reprehensible’, no criminal case against MP Hamboullas Cyprus

Though ‘reprehensible’, no criminal case against MP Hamboullas

January 29th, 20161655 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 online petition demanding his prosecution. In his written response to the 1,260 people who signed the petition in December, Clerides said ruling DISY MP Evgenios...
The ‘big business’ of bird trapping in Cyprus Cyprus

The ‘big business’ of bird trapping in Cyprus

December 1st, 20154611 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 Against Bird Slaughter (CABS) announced on Tuesday. According to a news release, more than 3,314 illegal limesticks and 155 nets were destroyed during a bird protection camp...
Poaching suspect charged and released News in Brief

Poaching suspect charged and released

October 28th, 20151552 A 21-year-old man from Dherynia was arrested Tuesday afternoon, after bird traps and a hunting shotgun for which he did not have licence, were located in his house and car during a search. According to police reports, officers from the local police station and from the game and fauna service, who had secured a search warrant, found 27...
Poacher arrested and charged in Famagusta area News in Brief

Poacher arrested and charged in Famagusta area

September 13th, 20151524 Members of the Famagusta police anti-poaching unit said they caught a 61-year-old from the Famagusta district hunting wild birds with the use of limesticks early on Sunday. The man was caught red-handed at around 6.45am, police said, adding that they also found in his possession an illegal audio device to lure the birds. They...
Concerns raised over selective hunting proposal Cyprus

Concerns raised over selective hunting proposal

July 2nd, 20152343 By Evie Andreou THE interior ministry waiting for the ruling of the European Commission before allowing the selective hunting of protected bird species, the head of the House environment committee, Adamos Adamou said on Wednesday. Interior Minister Socratis Hasikos briefed the committee on the controversial plan to tackle the...
Man admits poaching after birds found in home News in Brief

Man admits poaching after birds found in home

April 27th, 20151632 A 50-year-old admitted to charges related to poaching after police found birds, lime sticks and nets in his Paralimni home on Sunday. Authorities found two partridges and four thrushes in a cage, 18 frozen birds, 142 lime sticks and three capturing nets after searching his residence at 6am. The live birds were photographed and...
Number of mist nets ‘three times higher’ in bases Cyprus

Number of mist nets ‘three times higher’ in bases

March 27th, 20155455 By Staff Reporter Following a BirdLife report earlier this month that the Eastern Sovereign Base Area (ESBA) was a hot spot for bird trapping, two other groups have released similar findings showing that the illegal activity was three times higher than in the Republic. The Committee Against Bird Slaughter (CABS) and the Foundation...
‘Worst year’ for bases bird slaughter Cyprus

‘Worst year’ for bases bird slaughter

March 10th, 20152015 By Jean Christou THE BRITISH bases and BirdLife Cyprus were at odds on Monday after a report was released suggesting a record 900,000 songbirds had been killed by poachers in the British base area of Dhekelia last autumn, three times the number since monitoring began in 2002. The report was released in the UK by the Royal Society...
Authorities hindering anti-trapping attempts, says CABS Cyprus

Authorities hindering anti-trapping attempts, says CABS

March 17th, 20141796 By Staff Reporter The Committee Against Bird Slaughter (CABS) and the and the Foundation Pro Biodiversity (SPA) have accused the Cypriot authorities of not only turning a blind eye to illegal trapping but of hindering anti-trapping attempts. The accusation was made in the Cyprus Autumn 2013 Bird Protection Camp field report,...
‘Current government enabling bird trappers’ Cyprus

‘Current government enabling bird trappers’

February 7th, 20141698 By Angelos Anastasiou BIRD activists claim that since government changed last year there has been a U-turn in the fight against poaching. In a joint statement, the Committee Against Bird Slaughter (CABS) and the Foundation Pro Biodiversity (SPA) claim that, although their cooperation with the Anti-poaching Squad of the Cyprus...
Officials accused of pulling back on poaching clampdown Cyprus

Officials accused of pulling back on poaching clampdown

August 1st, 20132562 By Waylon Fairbanks THE BI-ANNUAL Bird Protection Report released on Wednesday accused the authorities of hampering environmental groups’ efforts to document and prevent the illegal poaching of song birds. The Committee Against Bird Slaughter (CABS) and the Foundation Pro Biodiversity (SPA) conducted a study between April 5 and...
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