Bird activists will monitor Cyprus through migratory season

The Committee Against Bird Slaughter (CABS) announced on Thursday that its volunteers would continue to monitor the migration and poaching of wild birds in Cyprus throughout the migratory season citing cases of poaching and sale of protected birds in restaurants.

It also called on the Game and Fauna Service to clampdown on illegality.

In a statement, CABS said that just 10 days after the launch of its campaign in Cyprus, five serious cases of poaching and “irregular hunting” had already been identified.

“The legal hunting season has just begun in Cyprus and poachers are already showing how little they care about laws and nature protection,” a CABS spokesman said, arguing that the Game and Fauna Service rarely tries to identify and prosecute offenders.

CABS urges members of the public to report cases of poaching and illegal trapping through their new Facebook page ‘CABS in Cyprus’.

 

 

The Cyprus Mail is the only English-language daily newspaper published in Cyprus. It was established in 1945 and today, with its popular and widely-read website, the Cyprus Mail is among the most trusted news sites in Cyprus. The newspaper is not affiliated with any political parties and has always striven to maintain its independence. Over the past 70-plus years, the Cyprus Mail, with a small dedicated team, has covered momentous events in Cyprus’ modern history, chronicling the last gasps of British colonial rule, Cyprus’ truncated independence, the coup and Turkish invasion, and the decades of negotiations to stitch the divided island back together, plus a myriad of scandals, murders, and human interests stories that capture the island and its -people. Observers describe it as politically conservative.