Libanon – 24. 10. 2025

´Trapping farm´ shut down in Northern Lebanon

24.10.2025

In Aabdeh, in northern Lebanon, we shut down a trapping ‘farm’ where migratory birds were being caught on an industrial scale. A total of 55 nets with a total length of around 1,250 m were found in an extensive lime plantation. This is the largest facility of its kind that we have seen in our 50-year history – between 1,000 and 1,500 birds were caught here every day. Of the approximately 500 freshly caught birds, around 300 were still alive – including various warblers, shrikes, a corncrake and an Egyptian Fruit bat! Due to the heated situation near the Syrian border, our team had to leave the area under police protection.

You can find more pictures of this spectacular operation on our Facebook post from today.

A YouTube video can be found here