French President bans glue trap hunting

[Catherine]

I have never heard of glue trap hunting. I had to look it up and now that I have I can't believe this was ever allowed.

https://www.thelocal.fr/20191119/bid-to-...-songbirds

How is this even considered hunting. It is just dangerously damaging birds. Why would anyone hunt a song bird anyhow?

The method of using glue traps to capture birds has been banned by the European Union. The European Commission is now pressuring France to stop the practice. 
President Macron has ordered hunters to stop using glue traps on birds.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53930797

Conservationists favour the ban and hunters oppose it. 

It is important to note that the practice of glue trapping has been suspended for a year. It has not actually been banned.

https://www.fr24news.com/a/2020/08/franc...rds-4.html

That means the practice could be resumed next year.

Hunters defending the practice claim it is a traditional way of hunting. We have heard tradition as an excuse for many cruel practices. This is no different.
It is cruel. Birds suffer and are terrorized by being trapped in the glue. Other birds are trapped and can suffer injury or die. It is time this method is completely banned.
Hunting song birds should be banned anyhow. Our current experiences with a pandemic that was transmitted by using wildlife as food, should be a warning against the practice of trapping and eating wildlife. That plus the declining number of song birds should be enough reason to stop this practice everywhere, permanently.