HELSINKI: A Finnish island will challenge searching permits for eagles protected beneath EU regulation from Tuesday to avoid wasting extra endangered seabirds, native authorities stated.
A allow to hunt six sea eagles will probably be granted between Could 14 and June 9 on the Finnish island of Lagskar, native authorities official Jesper Josefsson informed AFP. The species is protected throughout the European Union.
The island is a part of the autonomous and demilitarized Aland group of islands. The realm belongs to the EU Natura 2000 community of protected areas for wildlife. The intention of the native authorities in Åland is to guard the endangered eiders – a kind of sea duck – that nest on the island. After unsuccessful makes an attempt to cease eagles searching eiders, the native authorities has issued a allow to hunt them for the second 12 months in a row.
“The aim is to not cut back the eagle inhabitants, however to guard the eiders on this restricted space for a restricted time,” Josefsson, Minister of Economic system and Setting of the Åland authorities, informed AFP. An analogous resolution final 12 months resulted within the killing of three eagles. Josefsson stated the long-term aim was to get the eagles to “begin avoiding the realm.”
Finland is the one EU nation that permits the killing of the ocean eagle, which is listed as a conservation “flagship species” beneath EU regulation. The Finnish department of the worldwide hen group BirdLife stated it filed a grievance with Finland’s Supreme Administrative Courtroom on Monday.
