
I am a pupil in Year 5 at The Junior and Senior School in Nicosia. I am writing to you because we have been learning about illegal bird trapping, and I am deeply saddened and shocked that this is happening right here in our own environment.
In 2025, some reports say as many as 450,000 songbirds or ‘ambelopoulia ’ were illegally slaughtered in Cyprus. This shocking number reveals the catastrophic






