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It's the middle east, what else did you expect?
Samford Valley Qld.
The last one was the worst. The ciggie on the dead bird's beak was tasteless.
Besides, Australia can't get up on any high horse; Vic Duck Hunting Season anyone?
My apologies, I was not claiming any moral high ground in posting by being a westerner, rather intending only to inform on international bird life conservation issues, it is indeed interesting to see how different cultures and factions of society view and value avian life.
Personally I'd dare venture that the unregulated indiscriminatory unsustainable 'sport' hunting of bird species (presumably that including some vulnerable and endangered species and seemingly practiced on a rather large scale) has little place in the twentyfirst century and bird species have enough to contend with, but that's just my opinion.
here is another link, apparently it's been illegal since 1994
http://raptorpolitics.org.uk/2013/12/20/unimaginable-slaughter-of-migrating-birds-in-lebanon/
Wasn't having a shot at you zosterops (Reflex neither). I totally agree with you that it's horrific!
Was more complaining about the general state of affairs in Australia leaving much to be desired too. I'm not suggesting that in any way excuses somewhere like Lebanon; a dead bird is still a dead bird regardless of the comparative affluence of whoever kills it.
Personally, I can't see why someone would enjoy shooting anything, especially when it's simply a massacre.
I won't click on those links just as I couldn't watch the telly last night showing cruelty to our live export animals being slaughtered in the streets of Jordan etc for the recent muslim festival. I know its no good turning one's head away but it really is hard to take. We are simply not protecting our animals from barbarism.
There's something really worrying about a culture that delights in massacring wildlife for sport. This is especially the case in a world where our environment & its biodiversity is under severe threat from the depredations of humans. Human hunting for food was once part of sustaining life & can be seen as part of ecology. However, the effects of gross over-population combined with an increasingly powerful technological impact on the natural environment are all too evident. So far, the hunters of Lebanon seem unaware of &/or totally uncaring about the consequences of their behaviour but I must say this is scarcely surprising in a world where the multi-trillion dollar violence industry is so dominant.
I think we also need to remember that it's not only gun technology in countries like Lebanon that enables the wholesale slaughter of wildlife. It's also the earth moving & building technology that enables the destruction of huge swathes of habitat across Earth thus preventing so many creatures from ever being born. Sadly, until we as humans begin to respect our planet, its inhabitants & their habitats we'll be unable to demonstrate respect for our own species.
It's not just the middle east where animals are slaughtered with no regard to the pain and suffering they inflict unnecessarily.
Samford Valley Qld.
Too true Woko.