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songbirds · killed illegally around the mediterranean
shot, netted, glued and trapped
25 million
a year
0.792
a second
68,446
a day
of them, songbirds
?
most. blackcaps on lime sticks in cyprus, robins in italy, ortolans in the landes: kept in the dark, fattened, drowned in armagnac and eaten whole under a napkin. mitterrand’s last meal.
method BirdLife International 2015 (Brochet et al.): illegal killing around the Mediterranean.
- egypt about 5.7 million a year, italy 5.6, syria 3.9, lebanon 2.6, cyprus 2.3. the range is eleven to thirty-six million.source: BirdLife International 2015, Brochet et al.
- ortolans have been protected in france since 1999. about 30,000 a year are still taken. the european population fell 84% between 1980 and 2012.source: LPO; European Bird Census Council
- cyprus cut its trapping by four fifths in three years once it started fining people. it is creeping back.source: BirdLife Cyprus
live. this is the channel itself. embed it anywhere:
<iframe src="https://thetoll.earth/?channel=songbirds" width="100%" height="520" style="border:1px solid #D9DDDB" title="the toll · songbirds"></iframe>
or the whole broadcast, every channel, the same for everyone:
<iframe src="https://thetoll.earth/?embed=1" width="100%" height="520" style="border:1px solid #D9DDDB" title="the toll · on now, everywhere"></iframe>
how this number is built
- method
- BirdLife International 2015 (Brochet et al.): illegal killing around the Mediterranean.
- range
- 11–36 million/yr
- confidence
- estimate
- weakness
- illegal by definition, so estimated from surveys and enforcement data; excludes legal hunting, which is larger.
- dispute
- dispute LGR-021 · corrections are credited
- data
- channels.json (sign-in) · full entry · CC BY 4.0