Tendelles - stone crush traps for birds used in France / a CABS video / Steinquetschfallen скачать в хорошем качестве

Tendelles - stone crush traps for birds used in France / a CABS video / Steinquetschfallen

Since November 2005 thousands of song birds may once again be trapped and crushed to death under stone slabs - and subsequently eaten as delicacies. The traps set out on the limestone plateaux east of Avignon, are among the most brutal instruments in the European hunter's arsenal. A trap consists of a limestone slab weighing several kilograms, which is propped up on twigs and wood slivers and strewn with fresh juniper berries as bait. Birds coming to eat the berries brush against the twigs and are squashed under the slab or trapped in a small cavity under the slab. The victims of this literally Stone Age hunting method are above all thrushes, robins, pipits and finches. As many of these species are protected under EU legislation, the use of these indiscriminate traps (in French 'tendelles') was until now forbidden throughout the EU. Under no external pressure, the French Minister for Ecology and Sustainable Development Mme Nell Olin signed a law in November 2005 which permitted this brutal hobby to be practised again in the Départements Lozère and Aveyron. From the beginning of November until the end of January 'tendelles' can once again be set out in 31 communities between the Central Massif and the Tarn Gorge. The Minister justified the lifting of the ban with the development of a new form of trap in which the birds are only "trapped alive" under the stone slab "but not killed".