After CABS volunteers had located some 30 nets near Ormideia, their teams were stalked by trappers i

CABS release report on Cyprus bird trapping CABS release report on Cyprus bird trapping FAMAGUSTA GAZETTE T HE GERMAN RUN Committee Against Bird Slaughter (CABS) has published their first provisional statistics from its third autumn anti-bird trapping camp on Cyprus, which was conducted mainly in the south-east of the island, from 27 September to 12 October.
"Well over 4,000 limesticks were removed as well as almost 100 mist nets and 65 electronic lures. In close operational coordination with our teams, the police caught 16 trappers red-handed, who will be prosecuted in due course," bus tours las vegas A CABS release stated.
Pietro Liberati, operational coordinator for the second phase of the camp said: �The monitoring operations carried out by our teams covered principally bus tours las vegas the Famagusta and Larnaca districts, but we also operated in the British Eastern Sovereign Base Area (SBA) around the villages of Xylotymvou, Xylophagou and Ormideia, as well as on Cape Pyla.
"These latter areas are home to the critical bird trapping hotspots on Cyprus. Sites of 10 or more mist nets with dozens of active electronic lures, bus tours las vegas a professional undertaking on an industrial scale, are not infrequent. They are also easy to locate as the trappers in the SBA seem to have no fear of prosecution�.
After CABS volunteers had located some 30 nets near Ormideia, their teams were stalked by trappers in pick-ups, attacked bus tours las vegas with metal poles and shots were even fired at the volunteers during a night patrol to locate active electronic lures. Later the tyres of two CABS rental vehicles were slashed in the car park of a tourist hotel near Agia Napa.
Carmen Sedonati, a young female Swiss volunteer on her first CABS camp, was appalled at the constant bus tours las vegas threats bus tours las vegas and the open aggression displayed by the trappers: �Last Friday trappers smashed three windows of our car with rocks near Derynia. Their attempts at intimidation will not succeed. Every year more volunteers will join us to help prevent the decimation of our song bird populations on migration�.