Committee Against Bird Slaughter (CABS)

Police remove traps in Dortmund-Barop on 07.02.2012Following a tip-off from a member of the public CABS members discovered a Goshawk cage trap and a steel trap in a suburb of Dortmund on 7 February 2012. Both illegal traps were immediately adjacent to a pigeon coop in an allotment garden. Numerous Goshawk and pigeon feathers were strewn around the traps and the conservationists found the leg of a Goshawk in the cage trap.

In order to catch the offender the two staff members of the CABS’ Bonn office kept watch on the traps in freezing temperatures under -12° C. The man did not appear and the police were called. They seized both traps and initiated criminal investigation.

Cage and steel traps in the Dortmund pigeon fancier’s allotment
The rest of a Goshawk’s foot was found in the cage trap
The steel trap next to the cage trap was baited with a dead racing pigeon