Date:         Wed, 30 Sep 1998 09:35:15 EST5EDT
Reply-To:     Georgia Birders Online <GABO-L@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
Sender:       Georgia Birders Online <GABO-L@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
From:         ALAN B WILLIAMS <ABW5935@OWL.FORESTRY.UGA.EDU>
Organization: Warnell School of Forest Resources
Subject:      Petition lobbying for protection of migratory
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Birders...
I thought folks might be interested in learning more about this issue,
at least check out BirdLife International's WWW site:
http://www.kt.rim.or.jp/~birdinfo/birdlife/index.html
or sign the petition at:
http://www.lapetition.com
 
Alan
 
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Date:          Tue, 29 Sep 1998 12:57:34 -0700
Reply-to:      Bird Bander's Forum <BIRDBAND@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>
From:          Lyndon Kearsley <kearsley@CLUB.INNET.BE>
Subject:       [BIRDBAND] Petition lobbying for protection of migratory birds in
               Europe
To:            BIRDBAND@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
 
Please take the trouble to read and react to this mail. Also pass it on to other birders mailing lists that you may be subscribed to...
 
Sign and have other people sign the "migratory birds" petition on
<http://www.lapetition.com>-"Consulter/Signer"-"FNE-LPO-BIRDLIFE: POUR LA PROTECTION DES OISEAUX MIGRATEURS"
There are paper copies of the petition, but everyone can also sign it, and advertise for other people to sign for it, at the web site indicated above (it is in French only but it's quite obvious how
to complete it).
European hunters are trying to lobby the European commission for it to loosen the migratory bird directive, increase the shooting season and widen the list of species on the hit list. They have gath
red more than 1.5 millions signatures in this respect, many of them in France but also in Italy and other countries. BirdLife International, its French representative "LPO" and the French "Fôdôratio
 Nature & Environnement" are now setting up a reply to this of their actions, by collecting signatures, asking their deputies to react to this situation, and the lobbying the European commission to
aintain a strong on law. It is very important that we gather as many signatures as possible.  It is a Europe-wide action but sympathetic individuals from any part of the globe are urged to lend supp
rt.
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Questions to: Olivier Le Gall [legall@bordeaux.inra.fr]
 
Thanks for taking the trouble to sign and for passing this on to interested friends or mailing lists
 
Lyndon Kearsley
European co-listowner BIRDBAND