Monday, 11 November 2013

Fight against the massive bird slaughter in Egypt


Please save our migratory birds



Chris Tynan: What is the point of RSPB providing sites for all UK migration birds to breed for the young to be killed off. Cheers Chris

Laura Bimo : It’s not the first time I’ve I asked you to sign a petition against this barbaric behaviour. It’s sickening, every time I look at my photo’s of the  wonderful Golden orioles we saw in Hungary, It make’s me think  of the fate of their kin - on some mindless individuals dinner plate.



Please share this message with all your bird group's members and  everyone you know, to end the massive slaughter of songbirds in Egypt.
More than 400 MILES of nets are used to catch them during the Fall  Migration to be sold as delicacies to restaurants!
Click on the link to sign the petition below. There are still a few days left to
sign before the petition is closed!

For the Songbirds, Elaine Charkowski

From NABU:
"Dear friends of our birds, Thanks a lot for your great support for our fight against the massive bird slaughter in Egypt!
"Today I want to let you know that our common efforts are already bearing fruits: The German ministry of environment has reacted immediately and demanded an end to the trapping of migratory birds from the government of Egypt. It has also provided 20,000 Euro for urgent activities in the fight against the bird slaughter in Egypt. This money
we are using to organize an international meeting including representatives of the Egyptian ministry of environment to develop an action plan aimed at ending the bird trapping.
"Since October this year, my organization NABU, is already employing an expert in Egypt who is preparing this plan and will coordinate its implementation.
"There is also hope on a higher political level: The new Egyptian environment minister, Dr Laila Iskandar, recently promised to the ambassador of Switzerland in Kairo, to attend to this matter. Currently an internal working group is being set up in her ministry, whose task it is to stop the bird slaughter.
"I have asked the Egyptian ambassador in Berlin for a meeting to hand him the petition. The meeting is going to take place probably in the end of November / beginning of December. All signatures we will receive until then are going to be counted out and handed over.
"Therefore, there are some more days remaining to collect further signatures. So far, we are 75,000. Let s make it 100,000! Please help us, spread this petition again.

Please advise all your friends and relatives to this petition by sharing the following link on Facebook or via e-mail:



Lars Lachmann
Bird Conservation Officer
NABU (BirdLife International partner in Germany)






Merchants sell both live and dead birds at specialty markets in towns along the coast. When customers purchase them live, the merchants kill and pluck them on the spot.

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