One-time Disy MP Evgenios Hamboullas sparked outrage on Friday after he urged people in Famagusta (a city on the east coast Cyprus) to attack and beat up foreign activists fighting the illegal hunting of songbirds.

His outburst came after a statement by the Committee Against Bird Slaughter (Cabs) said 29 of its volunteers had collected 2,596 limesticks and 53 nets in the district, one of two main hotspots for bird trapping, a lucrative business that fetches millions to poachers.

In a rant on his Facebook page Hamboullas accused the authorities of treason and urged residents to attack the activists.

“They are not  aktivists, they are shit ruffians!! Break their bones wherever you find them and if you can’t, call me and I will help,” said Hamboullas.

The remark sparked outrage elsewhere on the island with people calling on Disy chief Averof Neophytou to oust Hamboullas from the party.

“It was an unacceptable post. There is no excuse. He ought to withdraw and apologise in public,” Neophytou said on Twitter.

Hamboullas has since removed the post.

This was not the first time Hamboullas caused a stir regarding the issue.

While in parliament in January 2016, he had posted a photo on social media of himself at a dinner table with a platter of songbirds.

MP Hamboullas seen here enjoying ambelopoulia

He claimed he did it because he supported legalisation of hunting blackcaps, or ambelopoulia as they are known locally, albeit not with limesticks and nets, as is the current practice.

The attorney-general chose not to press charges at the time because putting together a criminal against a sitting MP for eating illegal game was difficult.

https://cyprus-mail.com/2019/03/22/break-their-bones-ex-disy-mp-urges-in-facebook-rant-against-bird-activists/

My comment: In no other country in the European Union does poaching go to such an extent. 4,000 poachers (at 1,120,489 island inhabitants) are said to have contributed to the cruel killing  last year and more than 2 million birds were killed.

And this is how the serial killers act: Rods are smeared with an odorless and colorless glue and placed on attractive -for the birds- landing sites; the birds stick to it and are at the mercy of their tormentors – the fishing method was already used in the Stone Age.

And in no other country are the authorities so powerless and inactive. The captured birds have become a big business for catchers, butchers and restaurats. The police pushes more than one eye – glue rods and nets are considered at best as a trivial offense, if not a venerable tradition!

The illegal hunters earn about 15 million euros annually – of course, black. The estimate is from the year 2010 and should not have changed downwards.

“The illegal activities are open and more often supported by high-ranking politicians and administrative employees,” says a report about  “the Bird Mafia in Cyprus”.  https://www.spektrum.de/news/vogelfang-auf-zypern/1398790

We believe that immediately! if the kickback Hamboullas from the affair comes unpunished only with the deletion of a line in his Facebook page, then we have again learned something from corruption in politics.

On the other hand, they are all directly or indirectly supported by a society of lackeys. A population that lets such murders happen in front of their eyes and does so with the justification, there is always something more important in life than the murder and suffering of other beings.

My best regards, Venus

The demand for hunting trips is high. This year, even the hunt for a polar bear was offered by the Safari Club International in Las Vegas for a price of 72 000 US $.

Many animals are threatened with extinction. Nevertheless, they are killed out of sheer lust for murder. But these people are willing to pay a lot of money. The more threatening a species is, the more expensive it is the launch.

Even in the EU, the hunting lobby seems to have a mighty power, because the trophy hunt is even supported by the EU.
Botswana has been under pressure from the EU to lift the hunting ban. Botswana gained a notorious fame when Juan Carlos, who was WWF Honorary President and King of Spain at the time, broke his hip while hunting elephants. And so it became known that he “rang” the population density of African elephants also through safari !!
In November 2016, Chekedi Khama, Minister of Natural Resources and the Environment of Botswana, said his country was under unprecedented pressure from the pro-hunting lobby.

The EU and regional neighbors call for the lifting of the hunting ban, which was imposed in 2014.

Those who do not want to bid on Ebay can find out about trophy hunting from January 30 to February 4, 2018 at Europe’s largest hunting fair – HUNTING & DOG (JAGD & HUND). Elephant and rhino hunting was even offered at the last fair. Around 80,000 visitors and 800 companies from 41 nations participated in 2018. And the assumption is obvious that prominent hunters prevent the prohibition of hunting trophies.

This is a hunting safari in the Kalahari of South Africa – This is a 7 day hunt. 5 full hunting days with a travel day on each end. The hunt will include Blue Wildebeest, Blesbok, warthog and zebra.  AUF EBAY 

Reduced price !!! Fall Trophy Alaska Grizzly Bear Hunt

Auch eine Jagd in  Zimbabwe  ist möglich – HIER AUF EBAY 

More hunts, even photos with children, because the next generation should also learn to “hunt” – see here: on Ebay

There are also auctions where you can bid on hunts on polar bears – as you can see in the screenshot above.

The WWF claims that sustainable trophy hunting can be an effective conservation tool (!!!). The German Hunting Association (DJV) welcomed these position of the Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF) for hunting abroad.

Did you know that the European Parliament voted in favor of legal and sustainable trophy hunting despite protests from within its own ranks?
“The absolute ban on trophy hunting imposed by some members of parliament could be averted”, said Karl-Heinz Florenz (Germany), MEP,  in Hunter magazine.

So there is the Safari Club International in German!!. Here the hunting enthusiasts meet regularly for a regular’s table in Munich. By now you should be aware of why the EU does not want to ban the trophy trade.

Also in Germany you pay gladly for a shoot of a polar bear 40 000 Euro. Paradoxically, the ice bar is the hallmark of climate change!

In the following video, you can see an emaciated polar bear fighting desperately for survival.
His white coat covers the bony body.
He pulls a hind leg behind him. In search of food, the polar bear digs with his last strength in a nearby garbage bin, which is used by Inuit fishermen.
He finds nothing and falls resignedly back to the ground.

Did you know that Canada is forbidden to feed polar bears, but Canada is the only country where you can hunt polar bears?

The hunts take place in the areas of various Inuit communities, in the east as well as in the central Arctic region.

https://netzfrauen.org/2017/12/29/ebay/

Petition to sign: https://www.change.org/p/ministry-of-environment-and-tourism-namibia-met-hon-minister-pohamba-shifeta-no-more-hunting-of-desert-elephants-in-namibia

My comment: How sick does one have to be as a trophy hunter in order to “pose” next to the animal carcasses and to take pictures with the smile of a senile?
Or is there anything more awful than hanging heads from the sneaky-shot carcasses into the living room to show the world what a nasty, cowardly scum he is?

People who kill animals for fun are deranged. In today’s society, those who feel nothing about killing are seriously ill. This is confirmed by common sense.

This trophy hunting industry is the godchild of corrupt politicians, especially EU politicians. This industry is a corrupt business that also ruins an entire nation, if its society accepts the business because it has no civil courage to organize its forces against criminals.

My best regards, Venus

In Malta the bird catching is a popular sport.  Unlike in most other fishing areas in the Mediterranean, however, the captured songbirds do not end up in the pan, but end up as pets in the living rooms of supposed “bird lovers”.
In Malta’s capital, Valletta, a large bird market takes place every Sunday, which is even mentioned in the guidebooks as a tourist attraction.

Bird trapping was permitted until Malta’s accession to the EU in 2004.

With Malta’s accession to the European Union in 2004, the end of legal songbird catching should be heralded. The accession treaty stipulated that first of all the annual fishing time would be shortened, and on 31.12.2008 bird catching was finally banned.
In fact, the bird catchers had to shut down their nets for a few years, until the fall of 2014.

Prime Minister Joseph Muscat decided to allow bird trapping between mid-October and the end of December. The Social Democrat, who came to power in 2013, had promised support to the hunting lobby during the election campaign.

In addition, the government gave in to the massive pressure of the birdcatcher lobby and again allowed the bird catch against EU law.

Since then thousands of finches may be caught legally for several weeks in late autumn! In 2015, for example, 12,000 linnets, 800 goldfinches, 4,500 greenfinches, 2,350 siskins, 500 hawfinches, 5,000 chaffinches and 2,350 female carps were released.

It is to be feared that far more animals will be caught and illegally sold on the black market.

But that’s not enough for the Maltese bird catchers. Many have gone underground and have specialized in new prey: that is mainly waders.

Catch net from the air

With gigantic catches of more than 5,000 square feet and electronic decoys, woodcocks, sandpipers, alpine, dwarf and Temminck sandpipers are now being caught in dozens of places on the island. Many animals end up as “living collectibles” in aviaries, others in the pan.

The Committee Against Bird Slaughter uses specialized teams against this new form of environmental crime to find traps and collect evidence for the police. Every year we are attacked by more than a dozen poachers.

Update.

Maltese birdcatchers involved: In a special operation this week, three committee teams have observed 9 active traps with huge nets from different observation points off the coast west of Mtahleb. The birdcatchers had equipped the illegal facilities with live decoys and electronic baits to catch protected liners.

The police contacted by us appeared with two patrols, which unfortunately had a hard time on the ground to convict the poachers. At the end of a police operation lasting several hours, the officers had arrested only three poachers, not all nets and decoys could be secured, several bird trappers escaped.

The committee against the bird murder published today a press release to the disappointing yield and a video (see above).

http://www.komitee.de/en/actions-and-projects/malta/weak-enforcement-lets-poachers-keep-trapping-birds

My comment: Malta is the last EU Member State to allow bird hunting in the spring. The European Court of Justice had condemned the country in 2009 for hunting prohibited under EU law. However, every year Malta receives an exemption allowing the shooting of 11,000 lovebirds and 5,000 quails within a two-week period.

Again and again, however, the permissible quotas of a maximum of four animals per hunter are exceeded and also protected bird species such as storks or sailor birds are killed.

Of course everything is caught and shot there, not just what the odds give.
Malta is the most hunted region in the world. There are about 10,000 hunters and 6,000 trappers. Almost every adult man is a “hunter” licensed to kill birds. Many also keep hunting dogs. These are, when they are older and no longer agile enough, simply “disposed of”! Anyone wandering the island in the fall meets men with shouldered rifles at every turn or hears shots from close range.

Apparently, apart from the tourist season, the hunters have no other useful occupation than shooting birds like amok runners.

Why should the hunters of Malta be an exception and not behave like professional killers or psychopaths?

My best regards, Venus

After years of drought and recent bush fires, conditions have never been more dire for native waterbirds. Rather than follow the advice of expert scientists, Premier Dan Andrews instead has again allowed another duck shooting season to go ahead this year — albeit a shortened one, with restrictions on how many ducks can be shot.

But that didn’t help this beautiful Caspian Stern. So clearly not a ‘game bird’ but shot in the head and left to rot by shooters anyway.

This happened at one of 1000 locations where shooting can take place. Our friends at the Coalition Against Duck Shooting do their best to monitor wetlands, because they know — as does Premier Andrews — that enforcement of laws is impossible during duck shooting season. He knows that even when legal complaints are made, prosecutions rarely follow.

And yet he continues to defend this blood sport as ‘safe, humane and sustainable'(!)

Is it ‘safe’ to allow access to those wielding shotguns, who think it’s fun to slaughter defenseless wildlife, into 1000 mostly unmonitored locations across the state?

Is it ‘humane’ to allow waterbirds to be sprayed with shotgun pellets?

For these terrified and wounded animals to be pursued through the water, and then swung around by their necks until they die?

Is it ‘sustainable’ to allow hundreds of thousands of native waterbirds that are already struggling to survive, that are not breeding, that are in decline, to be blasted out of the sky for fun? The only way to protect our precious native waterbirds, is to ban this brutality permanently. Speak up here ⏩ www.AnimalsAus.org/tx7 ⏪

Petition, please sign: https://secure.animalsaustralia.org/take_action/duck-shooting

https://www.facebook.com/AnimalsAustralia

My comment: The hunters have a strong lobby, not in the population, but in the government of their country.
We are rather governed by the lobbyists, is there an area that has not been lobby contaminated? As a voter, you can vote for all holy times, but the rest of the time the lobbyists say so.

In this case, the prime minister and the hunters sold the murder of innocent beings as a safe, humane and sustainable solution!!
That’s what I mean by fascism!

My best regards, Venus