![]() ![]() All across Europe bird populations are in steep decline, and the slaughter in the Mediterranean is one of the causes. Mediterraneans shoot cranes, storks, and large raptors for which governments to the north have multimillion-euro conservation projects. ![]() The killing is substantially indiscriminate, with heavy impact on species already battered by destruction or fragmentation of their breeding habitat. To a visitor from North America, where bird hunting is well regulated and only naughty farm boys shoot songbirds, the situation in the Mediterranean is appalling: Every year, from one end of it to the other, hundreds of millions of songbirds and larger migrants are killed for food, profit, sport, and general amusement. In the article “ Last Song for Migrating Birds” published in the July 2013 issue of National Geographic, Jonathan Franzen writes: Their habitats are being destroyed, and bird populations are declining rapidly. Beautiful, fragile, wild, free birds.”īillions of birds migrate across the Mediterranean Sea twice a year, and hundreds of millions of them are shot, snared, netted or stuck to lime sticks. Cruel to species that I came to really cherish. This time I’m covering human cruelty, but it’s the persecution and suffering of other animals. I’ve spent the past 20 years covering human cruelty and human suffering. “I tried to give a voice to those under attack. “I tried to cover this like any another conflict that I have in the past,” he said. Rather, it is a conflict story because of the slaughter of innocents. Guttenfelder, it is too simplistic to see the songbird story as a conflict story just because of how he covered it. ![]()
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