Hunters fined for using bird sound machines
The Game Service on Wednesday fined two hunters €500 each after they were caught in Paphos with bird sound machines. The two men were caught...
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Two poachers were slapped with €500 fines each after being caught on Sunday on two separate occasions hunting by using machines which imitate bird calls....
Pair fined €23,000 for poaching in Paphos
Two men were arrested on Tuesday evening and fined €23,000 for hunting during the night in an area where hunting is forbidden, and for using...
Suspected poacher remanded over game warden attack (Updated)
A 43-year-old man arrested in connection with injuring a game warden on Tuesday evening was remanded for four days by the Paphos district court on...
Man fined €2K for possession of dead birds
A 63-year-old man from Famagusta was fined €2,000 on Friday after he was caught in possession of 36 dead wild birds. The birds were found...
Bird activists get into scuffle with poacher
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....
€25,000 fine for poaching
Police slapped a 62-year-old man from Peyia, Paphos with a €25,000 fine for poaching, it was announced on Monday. According to police, when officers of...
Poacher fined 7,000 euros after caught with illegal trapping equipment
Police on Sunday imposed an out-of-court fine of 7,000 euros on a 49-year-old man after bird-trapping materials were found on his property in the Famagusta...
Pensioner fined for bird trapping
Members of the anti-poaching squad on Tuesday morning detected an 82-year-old man who was hunting with the help of equipment mimicking bird voices on a...
Cypriot hunters ‘being hunted’ by the law, left ‘helpless and unprotected’, they say
Members of the Liopetri hunters association gathered in the Famagusta village on Tuesday night to protes against a law aimed at reducing poaching which was...
Poachers fined over €13,000 (updated)
Two men were fined some €13,000 after police found illegal trapping equipment and game on a property in the Famagusta district. It followed a search...
Cypriot and bases authorities slammed by anti-poaching NGOs
Some 430 wild birds from 25 different species were found trapped or killed, and more than 1,800 limesticks, were seized during the Spring Bird Protection...
Controversial bill aims to tackle bird-trapping
Discussion of a government bill introducing harsher penalties for poaching was concluded on Wednesday at the House legal affairs committee, with the bill scheduled...
Bases police arrest two men, seize drugs and firearms
Two men from Xylotymbou were remanded in custody for seven days on Tuesday after they were arrested at an abandoned farm in Ormidhia with drugs,...
Clampdown on poachers at start of hunting season
Police announced on Saturday that they had launched a campaign against poaching ahead of the beginning of the hunting season this Sunday. According to the...
Police seize over 100 dead wild birds from Zygi home
Over 100 dead wild birds were confiscated by police on Saturday from a house in Zygi According to police, around 5pm on Saturday the anti-poaching...
Africa forest elephants may take almost a century to recover from poaching
Africa’s rare forest elephants which play a key role in replenishing the central African rainforests will need almost a century to recover from an onslaught...
Two men charged with poaching
Police, in cooperation, with the Game Fund charged two men in connection with poaching, illegal possession of wild birds, illegal possession of killed prey and...
Suspected mouflon meat trading ring uncovered
A dead, skinned mouflon, a protected species, was discovered in a house in Kannaviou, Paphos on Wednesday, by officers of the Game and Fauna Service,...