Italien – 21. 01. 2025
Sharp decline in poaching in Sardinia
18.01.2025

The Italian Mediterranean island is the only place in Europe where horsehair snares are still used to catch birds. The birds are eaten as a regional delicacy. CABS has been working against poaching in Sardinia since 1999 - including this winter. So far, the police have been able to convict three poachers as a result of our field investigations and 90 snares have been seized. Unfortunately, the birds we find in the traps are almost always already dead, but this year a robin was very lucky: it had only just got caught in a trap and was rescued at the last second by one of our activists and set free! In the 2000s, we regularly found over 10,000 snares during our bird protection camps, but fortunately bird trapping has now decreased significantly here too.