The Catalan Government is trying to legalize hunting birds with glue, through a new regulation.

This cruel method is specifically banned by the European laws because is also massive, non-selective and impossible to control properly. In the name of " tradition" the hunters use electronic appeals and hundreds of thousands of thrush migrating from northern Europe, and about 30% of protected birds, are attracted to glued trees, in closed "barracas", and killed in the Ebro area between October and November.

In the same law-project the Catalan government is also trying to legalize a kind of net-trap hunting called "filat", which consist in trapping the thirsty birds attracted by small water pools, also forbidden in Spain, non-selective and impossible to control. Please sign up in the campaign against this legalization and send this mail to interested people.

http://www.gepec.org/barraca-i-filat/index_eng.html

Scenes from the film 'Atonement' – which goes on release this week – were filmed on two RSPB nature reserves in Cambridgeshire .

‘Atonement’, starring Keira Knightley and James McAvoy, is released across the UK on 9 September. Sequences in the movie, based on a novel by Ian McEwan, were filmed at the Nene Washes RSPB nature reserve near Peterborough and RSPB Ouse Washes near Ely.

The film’s location researchers selected them as they looked like late 1930s rural France.

Charlie Kitchin, RSPB Nene Washes site manager said: “I think it’s a compliment to the RSPB’s management of the Nene Washes that the film makers thought it looks like an unspoilt landscape of more than 50 years ago.“ The Nene Washes scene has soldiers moving along water-filled ditches and grass fields.

There were two scenes shot at the Ouse Washes, one under a railway bridge and the other looking out from a barn across the open marshes.

Jon Reeves, RSPB Ouse Washes site manager, said: “It was fascinating to see a little of the complications of making a movie on location – enormous efforts for a few seconds on screen. But we didn’t get to meet the stars.”