Hunting wild birds in Libya has sometimes turned from a hobby for enjoyment into competitions devoid of any standards, to the point that the sight of dead birds piled on top of each other has become a shocking scene, which has stripped that hobby of its true meaning, turning it into an indiscriminate hunting that has been condemned by all Libyan environmental organizations.
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The Wildlife Conservation Organization in Libya, which has posted several shocking scenes of wild bird hunting on its official page, says it does not oppose responsible and organized hunting, but its message is directed at the culture of exaggeration and boasting about numbers and turning hunting into a competition.
The organization explained in a statement published on its social media page that "a conscious hunter must realize that the continuation of the prey is more important than the harvest of one day."
Among the shocking scenes that reveal the boasting about the hunting haul were two slips of paper placed by a hunter on two freezers (freezers) in which he puts his hunting haul, indicating that each contained a thousand pigeons. The organization commented on this, saying that "publishing these scenes in a boastful manner may encourage others to imitate them and compete with their owners in numbers, so that wildlife turns into a competition in depletion."
The organization pointed out that continuing this behavior deprives disciplined fishermen, who have expressed their complaints in widely circulated videos about the scarcity of game and its gradual decline in numbers, noting that what they find today is less than what existed previously.
Another Libyan organization, the Libyan Bird Society, has expressed concern about the illegal hunting and sale of European turtle doves, saying that this reflects a dangerous shift towards the trade in game and the commercial exploitation of wildlife, which increases the pressure on wild species and threatens the sustainability of their natural populations.
The association said in a statement on its Facebook page that this matter is of particular importance to the European turtle dove, because it is a migratory bird that crosses Libya during its journey between breeding and wintering areas in Africa, and its global numbers have declined significantly, and this species has become classified as endangered globally.
Just as the Wildlife Organization called for regulation rather than prohibition, the association concluded its statement by saying that there is a need to update and activate the hunting regulation system in Libya, in order to ensure the protection of threatened and migratory species, regulate hunting seasons, quantities and methods, and enhance monitoring and enforcement on the ground.
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