France’s highest appeals court has ruled that the hunting of songbirds with glue traps is illegal, saying an exemption that had permitted the practice was in breach of European legislation. For generations, hunters mainly in the south of France have caught songbirds by coating branches of trees with glue, often using the singing of other […]
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POLL: Should hunting birds with glue traps be banned?
French bird hunters won a legal victory to continue trapping wild birds with glue on Thursday [20 November] when a European magistrate found the practice acceptable on cultural grounds. An advocate general of the European Court of Justice, Europe’s highest legal body, issued a legal opinion approving French laws that permit the limited use of […]