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Interior minister calls for crackdown on illegal hunting

Date: 
Wednesday, March 27, 2019

Interior Minister Raya El Hassan Wednesday called on the Internal Security Forces to take urgent action to apply hunting laws in Lebanon, the state-run National News Agency reported.In 2017, the Environment Ministry launched the National Campaign for the Protection of Migratory Birds to ensure the application of Law 580, which outlines the types of species and hunting materials allowed.n order to combat this, the interior minister set out a list measures to be taken by the ISF, beginning with distributing a copy of the hunting law to all agency employees and ensuring they know the dates of the hunting season.

Acting Bodies: 
Lebanese Government
Type: 
Laws
Categories: 
Environment
Impact: 
National
Status: 
Proposed/Discussed
Civil Society Response: 
Accepted