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David Beattie
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Post by David Beattie »

This seems self explanatory


There is a video doing the rounds on You tube that shows the slaughter of hundreds of Lapwing in France .If you want to see it go to:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJZ40T5Xdm0

or just put lapwing slaughter into You Tube.

It is so disturbing that we would hope that you could ask as many people to E-mail Commissioner Stavros Dimas stavros.dimas@ec.europa.eu at the European Commission to ask him to enforce existing legislation to stop it - if you have blogs/websites, please consider highlighting the slaughter as the more people that oppose it then there is more chance of getting it stopped!.

The sentiments expressed here are purely my own and not the Society's
David Dunlop
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Post by David Dunlop »

BirdLife International Partners, including LPO (BirdLife in France) and RSPB (BirdLife in the UK), are seeking an end to the unacceptable derogation that France has for the trapping of Lapwing and Golden Plover - in the French Ardennes. They question whether the derogation is legal, considering it unlikely that either the French or the Italian derogations for lapwing trapping can fulfil the terms of Article 9 of the EU Birds Directive any more than the trapping in Malta of finches, quail, golden plover, turtle dove and thrushes that was ended in 2008. French naturalists have also been informed about the ongoing petition (e.g. www.migraction.net )

In Italy it seems the situation may be worse than in France.

I understand that RSPB and its EU partners are encouraging people to write to the European Commission and the Government of France as well as the Governments of Italy, Spain, Greece and Malta in support of a complete ban on harvesting of lapwings in the EU.

BirdLife International Partners are also asking a French MEP to put down a question in the EU Parliament about cold weather ban arrangements in the EU with a view to seeing if it is worth the Commission putting in place some guidance on this - the system in France is clearly inadequate and lapwings are among the species that suffer from this.

That said, Golden Plover is a quarry species in the UK; so perhaps we also need to get our own house in order before 'pointing the finger'?
David Dunlop
Conservation Officer for Central & Western Lancashire
The Wildlife Trust for Lancashire, Manchester & North Merseyside
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