700km of nets trapping birds

swifts need our help!

Disgusting what is going on
http://www.wildlifeextra.com/go/news/egypt-bird-trapping.html#cr

Birdnuts

swifts need our help! wrote: »

Disgusting what is going on
http://www.wildlifeextra.com/go/news/egypt-bird-trapping.html#cr

Its not just Egypt - rampant illegal poaching of migrant birds is also a huge problem in migration bottlenecks like Lebanon and Cyprus. In some ways its amazing any migrant birds make it to their nesting grounds North of this region:(

ThunderCat

Absolutly disgusting. As if these poor birds don't have enough to contend with along the migration.

Cork boy 55

Here's the issue Unsustainable Human population growth
Egypt is the most overpopulated region on Earth IMO
Its basically one river valley and a delta.
It relays on massive food imports to feed its population.
Future is bleak, Properly Environmental collapse + sectarian war as in Syria.

Birdnuts

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2013/07/songbird-migration/franzen-text

This along side CB's graph above suggests a situation that can only end one way:(

Capercaille

Birdnuts wrote: »

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2013/07/songbird-migration/franzen-text

This along side CB's graph above suggests a situation that can only end one way:(

That's a depressing article. Widespread trapping and shooting will lead to mass exterminations.

Bsal

Capercaille wrote: »

That's a depressing article. Widespread trapping and shooting will lead to mass exterminations.

Very sad indeed.

Clap your handsay yeah

Read an article in the Sunday Times a week or so ago about a documentary titled 'Emptying the skies' that was recently shown at the Sheffield doc festival, trailer here, not sure where to watch it though.

From there facebook

Based on Jonathan Franzen’s "New Yorker" essay, the powerful new documentary about the secret war against rampant migratory songbird poaching in the Mediterranean.

trekie123

Its not the huge jump in human population its simply the fact that humans are a cancer on the earth. The only hope for the planet is if we were to suddenly disappear and allow this blue jem in the galaxy to return to how it should be. Consider this, if suddenly we were to achieve the ability to travel to other galaxies and lets assume we discovered a planet exactly like earth but with no humans on it.
The first thing a human visitor would do on this untouched tree covered planet would be to clear a path by cutting down some trees and clearing high growing grasses so we could walk with ease and without getting wet or dirty..... so the human cancer would begin infecting another perfectly healthy planet.

Judgement Day

trekie123 wrote: »

Its not the huge jump in human population its simply the fact that humans are a cancer on the earth. The only hope for the planet is if we were to suddenly disappear and allow this blue jem in the galaxy to return to how it should be. Consider this, if suddenly we were to achieve the ability to travel to other galaxies and lets assume we discovered a planet exactly like earth but with no humans on it.
The first thing a human visitor would do on this untouched tree covered planet would be to clear a path by cutting down some trees and clearing high growing grasses so we could walk with ease and without getting wet or dirty..... so the human cancer would begin infecting another perfectly healthy planet.

Oh dear, you first then.