French farmer gets in a flap as he tells bird activists to shove off

Conservationists took flight when a furious farmer in only blue T-shirt and pants took exception to their efforts to remove poaching traps

Bird enthusiasts attempting to remove illegal poaching traps in a French village have been met with fury by a local farmer, armed with a shovel and wearing nothing but a blue T-shirt and underwear.

Members of the League for the Protection of Birds (LPO) had taken several journalists on an operation to stop the poaching of finches, a protected species, in the village of Audon, south-west France.