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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CAU" data-source="post: 1381392" data-attributes="member: 55324">This January hunters are allowed shoot 200 Common Buzzards and 50 Goshawks under the pretext of protecting Tawny Pipits, European Green Lizards and Agile Frogs (and more during the following years). This will of course also lead to the deaths of other protected raptors, as the hunters aren't too good at identifying them. The true reasons for the decline of the pipits, lizards and frogs are of course related to human activities, and I believe that especially Goshawks very rarely eat any of the named species.I'm really shocked to find that the hunters can this easily find legal excuses to persecute raptors in "civilized" Europe.</blockquote>