The Lebanese are hit by the decision of the minister, the width of the wall: We determine the start of the hunting season!

From all the slopes of the valleys of Lebanon, the thundering of the shots returned to make silent with the beginning of the dawn, and the sound devices in which the swarmers are lured as if we were facing an open battle against birds. The scene intensifies this autumn while the Ministry of Environment clearly declares that “there is no decision to open the fishing season until now”, and confirms that any circulating news otherwise “is not true”, and that any identification of the season remains dependent on the issuance of the decree forming the “Supreme Council for Wild Fishing” legally authorized to suggest opening the season or not. In a more accurate sense: In the absence of an official declared decision, the original remains the prohibition, and everything that is going on in the fields and the burial today is outside the law.
This “organizational void” does not mean a vacuum in the legal base. The fishing season in Lebanon is not a tradition that is resumed automatically every year, but rather a definite procedure that shows the types allowed, quantities, times and regions. Accordingly, the use of sound devices to lure birds constitutes a double violation: tampering with the natural behavior of the swarms and turns hunting from individual skill to genocide, and causes an environmental imbalance that is not seen quickly but it is measured later in less balanced fields and in broken food chains. Post -sunset, shots close to homes and roads, and a window of sound besiege the swarms of birds over one point. The danger here goes beyond the environment to public safety: reckless bullets, frictions and arguments, and accidents that can be avoided if the law is applied. Lebanon, a major station on the path of bird migration between Europe and Africa, does not have the luxury of leniency; What is killed here is not compensated in another place, and the loss is not “emotional”, but also functional: birds that devour pests, spread the seeds, preserve the rhythm of nature. And that chaos is fed by rumors, the media responsibility returns to the fore. The Ministry of Environmental statement was explicit: Any official information issued exclusively by the ministry and its official formula. Without him a rumor that misleads fishermen and public opinion together. Here everyone shares responsibility: communication platforms and news sites that convey the news of “opening the season” without verification, stores that are marketed for bird lure bureaucrators and violating accessories as if they were ordinary equipment, and municipalities that can, but rather, be the first line of defense through reporting and accompanying. In summary, the issue is not “with or against hunting” as a cultural principle that is rooted with many, but with or against the chaos that The law and nature are devoured together. The Ministry of Environment said its speech, and the issue is now in the distance of application between paper and the field. If things are left on this rhythm, we will come out of a fall without a season with less bird memory, with a poorest nature, and with a general sense that the law is advice, not a rule. As for us to make sense, a clear official decision, effective control, and real deterrence, then we preserve the remaining passing swarms and from the image of a country that wants to respect himself before he respects his season.