Villagers from Peixian, Jiangsu Province came up with a particularly sneaky method of trapping birds: by playing them MP3 recordings of their mating calls to attract and then catch them.
One of the people involved has managed to bag an insane 20,000 birds so far using this technique. He and several others were caught by police this week with 700 moorhens packed in cages ready for export to Guangzhou.
One villager, Zhang, made a profit of 30,000 RMB from the illegal sale of the birds, which he trapped by playing moorhen cries downloaded from the internet through loudspeakers.
A conservation expert from Jiangsu Normal University said that the loss of so many birds would ‘definitely threaten’ the local eco system. The police are currently investigating connections to other suspects.
Source: ecns.com
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So....did the police actually return all the Hens to the wild? or take their "share" home for dinner?
Jun 07, 2014 11:56 Report Abuse
The copper in the photo doesn't seem to like eating Moorhens...
Jun 07, 2014 13:23 Report Abuse
And of course they will blame anyone but themselves when the entire bloody country is a polluted wasteland
Jun 06, 2014 18:48 Report Abuse
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