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Help stop hunting of birds with glue

DO YOU WANT TO SEE THEM LIKE THAT ?

The Catalan Government is trying to legalize hunting birds with glue, through a new regulation.

This cruel method is specifically banned by the European laws because is also massive, non-selective and impossible to control properly.

In the name of “tradition” the hunters use electronic appeals and hundreds of thousands of thrush migrating from northern Europe, and about 30% of protected birds, are attracted to glued trees, in closed “barracas”, and killed in the Ebro area between October and November.

In the same law-project the Catalan government is also trying to legalize a kind of net-trap hunting called “filat”, which consist in trapping the thirsty birds attracted by small water pools, also forbidden in Spain, non-selective and impossible to control.

The protection of the nature performs all over new attitudes, but our government “of progress and ecologist” is of looking to a past of survival hunting that destroys protected species.

lease sign up in the campaign against this legalization and send this mail to interested people.
Our birds are your birds.

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South Korean Wetlands

Saemangeum, the once glorious estuary on the west coast of South Korea, is dying. Open the sea-gates now. Restore Saemangeum!

In April, 2006, dumper trucks poured their final loads of rubble and rock into the last remaining gap in a 33-km long dyke, and closed off 40,000 hectares of this vast estuary from the sea. With almost no tide, the shellfish beds – that had until that day supported the world’s largest concentration of Great Knot – started to die.

By April 2007, most of Saemangeum’s tidal-flats had either been flooded, or turned into desert – huge expanses of drying mud, littered with dead shells, plastic, and even fishing boats – all part of a massive “reclamation” project, with still no clear end-use.
Forty Thousand Hectares: Forty thousand emails – help to overturn this decision and Restore Saemangeum to it’s former glory

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