https://www.france24.com/en/france/20210806-france-s-top-court-bans-controversial-bird-hunting-techniques

Issued on:06/08/2021 – 22:49

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France’s top administrative court on Friday banned more traditional techniques for hunting birds following the banning of glue hunting in June, in a ruling welcomed by environmental pressure groups but denounced by hunters.ADVERTISING

The techniques banned in the new ruling by the State Council include practices popular in the southwest of France and the Ardennes region of the east of the country, such as hunting with nets or bird cages.

Its ruling revokes exemptions granted by the government to allow the hunting of birds such as lapwings, golden plovers, skylarks, thrushes and blackbirds after a2009 EU directive that banned the mass hunting of…