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Message: <blockquote data-quote="china guy" data-source="post: 1636185" data-attributes="member: 6819">Hey guys - sorry to butt in but here's a good news story and a bit of inspiration for any China birder who confronts bird catchers and their nets.I found some huge nets - last Friday - they were set up on a river bank for catching migratory Buzzards. They were over the other side of the river - I couldn't get to them - and since its usually so hard to get the authorities to do something - I felt very down knowing that this stuff was going on so close to where we live.But after a chat with a local policeman - and the suggestion we travel to the forest dept - which has a wildlife protection team - in our neighbor town of Pixian - today we can report there are officials who care and act on this stuff!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Within 15 minutes of getting to their office they had a car ready with a 3 person team to drive the 10km and then walk a couple of K's to the site of the nets. We got 3 huge nets - found the owners - luckily there were no birds caught - they gave warnings over prosecution if the net reappeared (I'm glad this was the way they handled this part- the people who put these nets up are quite poor) - and then burnt them on the spot!!!!!!!!!!!I'm still dizzy - this is the country where you sometimes expect wait after wait after wait just to get the most simple legal matter solved - Pixian Wildlife Protection team - you guys are brilliant!!!!!They talked of doing sweeps along other bigger rivers - and told us to get in contact if we found anything else.If anybody here finds similar stuff in their neck of the woods - then its to get in touch with the forest department, and try and find their wildlife protection workers - and hope they're as active and enthusiastic as our local branch.</blockquote>

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