zan wrote:Oracle wrote:BOF wrote:Oracle wrote:BOF wrote:Nikitas wrote:As a hunter I am perplexed. What on earth do you do with a dead donkey? Are they edible? Do you stuff them as a trophy?
A tchnical aside, a shotgun cannot kill a donkey. In Cyprus only shotguns are allowed. So how are the donkeys shot? By whom?
One assumes the same as you do with blackbirds and thrushes.......
As you point out only
shotguns are allowed in Cyprus so if they are being shot with these then they have a lingering death..
BOF
.... is this true in the occupied part of the island? ...... or does anything go there? ... they must have an
awful lot of weapons around, what with over 40,000 well-armed Turkish soldiers (getting bored
) ....
and on the ROC side we have about the same number of well armed registered hunters......
BOF
Are hunters scrupulously registered in the occupied north also?
If so, how many more does that add to the presently armed 40,000?
Now remind who it was that was making us aware of what is happening to the turtles in the South....I think there is an issue with cats,dogs and birds, most of which is happening illegally.....Now how civilised this licensed South is
Killing the donkeys is disgusting, BUT
are they encroaching on farmers lands? The karpas is mostly uncultivated nature reserve. If the donkeys need culling then this should be done humanely or the donkeys moved elsewhere where they cause no damage.
I also read with great sadness a little while ago that hunters shot and almost wiped out a colony of fruit bats
in their cave - while they were sleeping where was that? OH YES the civilised SOUTH
Also Cyprus (south) has the largest ownership of guns per head of population than any other EU country!!! 36 firearms per 100 people!!!