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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8858

4 January 2005
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/court of justice
Valencia must ban use of lime snares to trap thrushes

Luxembourg, 03/01/2005 (Agence Europe) - Spain has been found guilty by the European Court of Justice of allowing the region of Valencia to allow the use of lime twigs or snares to trap thrushes. The 'parany' is a device used to capture birds in Valencia. It is a structure of limed twigs arranged in a tree to which the hunted birds are lured with decoys. As soon as a bird comes into contact with a limed twig, it generally loses its ability to fly and may be caught and killed by the...

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