‘The fight goes on’: the struggle to save Europe’s songbirds

Campaigners help close the loophole allowing glue-trapping in France, but the battle to save endangered bird species goes on

• ECJ orders France to ban glue-trap hunting of songbirds
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Chasse a la glu has ended, but the fight to save other birds is not over," says campaigner Yves Verilhac. We are now battling to stop other cruel hunting methods that lead to the killing of skylarks, lapwings, golden plovers, thrushes and blackbirds."

Two years ago, Verilhac, of France's Ligue pour la Protection des Oiseaux (LPO), was fighting to stop the French tradition of chasse a la glu - hunting songbirds with twigs and branches covered in adhesive.