Crossing Continents: Cyprus: The Battle Over Songbird Slaughter

Cyprus is one of the main resting stops for songbirds as they migrate between Europe, Africa and the Middle East. For centuries, Cypriots trapped and ate a small number of migrating songbirds, but the consumption of songbirds has become a lucrative commercial business and the level of slaughter has reached industrial levels attracting the attention of organised criminal gangs. Antonia Bolingbroke-Kent sees the trappers in action, and meets those determined to stop the mass killing of birds