@davidscallan.bsky.social
Well worth following this project!
27.10.2025 19:16 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Nice work!
26.08.2025 21:04 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Coming up next week!
26.08.2025 21:04 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
📢 New FACE Report out now!
The most up-to-date #ungulate harvest data compilation in Europe.
🦌 A true conservation success story, thanks to #hunters’ efforts in managing #wildlife sustainably and supporting biodiversity.
📄 Download full report here 👇
www.face.eu/2025/07/new-...
🔴 The FACE Report for June 2025 is out! 🔴
Your monthly update on Europe’s political and hunting agenda. Available here 👉 face.eu/report/
📩 Subscribe now: eepurl.com/dvG58r
Infographic showing that 43 out of 97 days had heatwaves in Southeastern Europe from June to September 2024. Heatwaves are defined as three or more consecutive hot days. The chart visually represents hot days as red-orange dots along curved lines for each month (June to September), with a cluster in July marked "13 days on record," indicating an especially long heatwave period. An EU flag is in the top-right corner.
In 2024, Europe was the world’s fastest-warming continent.
We had the hottest year on record, impacting an estimated 413,000 people. Sea surface temperatures also reached new highs.
As our planet heats up, urgent climate action is more critical than ever.
Last week week marked 20 years of the @birdlifeeurope.bsky.social @faceforhunters.bsky.social agreement.
Here are my personal thoughts about why it's been worth it and why it is still relevant.
www.birdlife.org/news/2025/06...
Some nice #Lynx work here!
www.face.eu/2025/06/life...
Decisions in Brussels. Consequences in the Forest. We, the Hunters Pilot
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Lw1...
@faceforhunters.bsky.social
🕊 Good News for the #TurtleDove! For the first time, Turtle Dove numbers are going up!
In the #West the population has been rising for three years, enough to reopen hunting at low levels. Now since 2024 we’re also seeing signs of recovery in the #East
👉 bit.ly/3HHNwLQ
The targeted change to the protection status of wolves worked procedurally. Next: Good decisions by Member States will lead to better coexistence.
r.newsletter.consilium.europa.eu/mk/mr/sh/1t6...
🌍 20 Years of Cooperation for Nature 🐦
"Both FACE and @birdlifeeurope.bsky.social have a common goal to see the sky full of birds, and we work hard to achieve this, especially on the need to improve habitats across Europe"
Read more ➡️ www.face.eu/2025/06/20-y...
🦉 Good celebration of an important cooperation between EU hunters & NGO BirdLife. It wasn't always easy, but it's overall fruitful: We all want a sky full of birds and we want the Commission to protect habitats! Thanks @jessikaroswall.ec.europa.eu @davidscallan.bsky.social @arielbrunner.bsky.social!
02.06.2025 18:42 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
“Diners in Slovakia could soon order delicacies like bear burgers after the government authorised the sale of bear meat to retailers”.
www.euractiv.com/section/eet/...
Ah! I'm disappointed that "Hunting, Conservation & Cooperation: 20 Years of @faceforhunters.bsky.social – @birdlifeeurope.bsky.social collaboration" event is not going to be on-line. Excellent speakers! Register now if you're in Brussels on the 2nd of June.
23.05.2025 19:56 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A hilltop view overlooking the sea and rolling sand dunes, capturing the calm and expansive coastal landscape
A wooden boardwalk winding through a lush green marsh, bordered by tall grasses and calm water reflecting the sky
Vibrant orange hills of ochre in layered shades of red, yellow, and orange, dotted with green trees under a bright blue sky.
Natura 2000 Day 🌳 33 years of nature protection.
Passing its initial timeline, the network has grown to over 27,000 protected sites, safeguarding biodiversity across the EU:
🏞️ 18% of land
🌊 8% of marine areas
Find one near you with our search tool 👉🏼 europa.eu/!bv3FWx
🐺🇪🇺 The European Parliament recently backed the decision to down-list the wolf at EU level.
🔴 Message from Dr. David Scallan, Secretary General of FACE
👉 For full PR visit: www.face.eu/2025/05/euro...
A fabulous place.
17.05.2025 06:02 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Nice examples of biodiversity-friendly actions (at scale) on farmland!
Read more:
eu-cap-network.ec.europa.eu/publications...
There are hunting methods where hunters wait all night in hides in the hope that ducks land on water to decoys, then they shoot (FR). Shooting pigeons decoyed into trees is another similar concept. Grouse with a rifle in the north of Europe. Predator control for corvids (ground or trees).
15.05.2025 19:36 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Nice work in the European Quarter #Brussels 🐝
13.05.2025 14:20 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🎉 Success! The European Parliament has voted for greater flexibility in #wolf management across Europe.
🌍 This is major progress to allow Member States to manage wolf populations more effectively while maintaining strong #conservation standards.
👉 Read the full PR here: www.face.eu/2025/05/euro...
EPP not planning to use final wolf vote to target more environment rules
06.05.2025 16:10 — 👍 5 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1
Getting out into nature is more important than we think. And if you can get wild meat all the better 🐗
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
The wolf population has almost doubled in 10 years (from 11 193 in 2012 to 20 300 in 2023).
It’s a targeted proposal to change the protection status of the wolf only, not to open the directive.
Doing nothing, on the other hand, would put the entire directive at risk.
I feel the same although I don’t have a podcast 😎
02.05.2025 07:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/agen...
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Do you think the release magnitude, which is very different there, plays a role?
27.04.2025 05:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I’ll be honest: I care a lot about biodiversity. And the gun clubs in Sligo and Galway I am involved in are doing good work for biodiversity. We clearly agree to disagree about pheasant releasing in Ireland.
26.04.2025 13:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
