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Saturday 7 September 2019

Drinking wine at lunchtime doesn't make you civilized!


French Ecology Minister Elisabeth Borne has just signed 11 cabinet orders authorising ‘traditional hunting’ methods including limesticks, horsehair snares and matoles in several french departments. The French 2019-2020 hunting season permits the trapping of more than 150000 wildbirds: so much for the French posture of being 'civilized'. Then again, the eating of Ortolans still continues, albeit in somewhat clandestine fashion.

What with our hooray Henries decimating our raptor population, the Maltese, Greeks and French shooting everything else, it seems unlikely anyone will ever beat Steve Gantlett's life list: in a few years the benchmark for successful listing will be 300 again!
 

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