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Illegal bird trapping equipment including a huge mist net were found over the past week as members of the Committee Against Bird Slaughter (CABS) led police officers to seven illegal trapping sites for Turtle Dove and Quail in Gozo. Two illegal cage traps werCABS/police operation against illegal trapping finds huge mist net installation in Gozo
Illegal bird trapping equipment including a huge mist net were found over the past week as members of the Committee Against Bird Slaughter (CABS) led police officers to seven illegal trapping sites for Turtle Dove and Quail in Gozo. Two illegal cage traps were found near Għasri and the outskirts of Victoria, three sets of clap nets in San Lawrenz, Zebbuġ and Għasri, one ground net for Quail-trapping in Marsalforn and a massive vertical mist net which poachers had set up in a fenced property below the Gordan lighthouse. CABS said that the operation revealed that poachers have adopted a new technique to trap turtle doves with so-called sputnik-traps` which are installed on top of cages containing live Turtle Doves. Sputnik-traps are normally used by pigeon fanciers to secure returning racing pigeons in the loft; but attached to an aviary they are a very effective mechanism to trap wild birds. With a size of about 100 square metres the mist net found below the lighthouse was one of the biggest of its kind ever found by CABS on Malta and Gozo. “Its dimension and professional setup suggest that this trap was set up and operated by several poachers who intended to catch hundreds of... Read more