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France bans bird-gluing after 30-year exemption from EU law
By EUobserver
France's highest court has banned putting glue on sticks to trap songbirds for recreation or to eat them, saying it was in breach of EU law and that it caused birds permanent harm. The EU law dated to 1979, but France, in 1989, decreed that it was exempt so long as the glue-trapping was "selective, controlled and in limited quantity". No other EU country allows the practice.