updated 13.03.2008

PRESS RELEASES 2008  
European Charter on Hunting highlighted at latest FACE General Assembly
European presentation of the FACE & XONtv Agreement

 
   
PRESS RELEASES 2007  
FACE Launches major funding drive for wildlife research   
   
PRESS RELEASES 2006
FACE General Assembly elects new Board with regional representation   

Ambitious Europe-wide "hunting bag" data collecting programme launched by FACE, was baptised ARTEMIS   

HUNTING INTERGROUP
23.05.2007 Guidelines on cormorants and other predatory birds

14.03.2007 African representatives call upon the EU to promote sustainable and community-based use of wildlife in the framework of CITES   

 

14.02.2007 Intergroup discusses game-meat, animal-by products and firearms

  

 
15.11.2006 Intergroup discusses "Sustainable Hunting"   

05.07.2006 Intergroup advocates "alliance" of all rural sectors

  

15.03.2006 Intergroup discusses Avian flu and its threats for wild birds   

15.02.2006
Intergroup discusses management of large carnivores
  
 
 
PRESS RELEASES 2005

17.11.2005

European Parliament rejects "Humane trapping" Proposal

  

16.11.2005
European Parliament "Sustainable Hunting" Intergroup celebrates its 20th anniversary
  

01.09.2005
FACE President meets Environment Commissionner
  

11.05.2005
The "Sustainable Hunting, Biodiversity & Countryside Activities" Intergroup
debates the Proposal for a “Humane Trapping Standards” Directive
  

23.02.2005
Intergroup adopts the name "Sustainable Hunting, Biodiversity & Countryside Activities"
  

PRESS RELEASES 2004
15.10.2004, Strasbourg
EP Intergroup “Fieldsports & Conservation” reconstituted
  

12.10.2004, SUSTAINABLE HUNTING
FACE and BirdLife International sign

Agreement on sustainable hunting

GUIDE
 

(The Interpretative Guide is available in 8 other languages on the EU Commission's website)

See also...

> From confrontation to cooperation: Agreement between BirdLife and FACE, p. 15
in NATURA 2000 Newlsetter, October 2004 (special issue on 25 years of the Birds Directive)
Click here to download the newsletter

AGREEMENT - ACCORD - ÜBEREINKOMMEN
> Official text (EN)



  

04.09.2004, Brussels
"FACE is now representing 34 countries!"
  
03.06.2004, EU COMMISSION
For the first time, FACE and BirdLife International "go public" during the EU Commission's Green Week.
  
07.04.2004, EP ELECTIONS
"Zoom in on the FACE "European elections" Stragegy
"The European hunter and politics: a vote for reason"
  
22.01.2004, BUSHMEAT
"The threat that venison and other game meat would be considered by the EU as illegal bushmeat bas been removed!"
  
20.01.2004, EUROPEAN UNION
"A FACE reminder of European Union key-dates for 2004"
  

HUNTING INTERGROUP Press Releases