Law on protection of environment, enacted by the Finnish Parliament:
39§: Protection of species of Fauna and Flora
Prohibition is made on exemplars of endangered or otherwise protected species of
intentional killing, as well as hunting, trapping, or otherwise capturing;
acquisition, relocation, or other intentional disruption of nests, eggs, or other development forms; and
causing a disturbance, especially during mating and nesting seasons, in migration rest areas, or other locations important for the life cycle of the species
A tree that carries a visible and occupied nest of a protected species, or a raptorial bird, or that is posted as carrying such a nest, is protected under this law.
Deparment of the Environment can issue a prohibition of methods of capture of invertebrate species that can be deemed to have an adverse effect on the environment
45§: Trade of protected species
Import, export, sale, trade, offering for sale or trade, of [endangered or otherwise protected species as defined elsewhere] without permit from regional authority is prohibited.
The law and related statutes refer to EU directives and the CITES convention, links above.
Disclaimer: translations are mine and I am not accustomed to work with juridical texts. Finnish laws and statutes are in general, however, fairly straightforward and do not stagger under "whereas" and "party of the third part" constructs.
Missed one bit of the 45§: the prohibition applies to animals, plants, and other lifeforms, live or killed, also to parts thereof such as skins, hides, tusks, cuttings, roots, eggs, or seeds. (The examples are not part of the text of the law; they are my additions and are not a conclusive list.)
Isn't it illegal to disturb any bird/ animal nest or babies during nesting season? Not just endangered. It is also illegal to take as pet any animal from nature here, no matter if they are endangered or not. If thye are injured or sick, you can treat them but they must be released or delivered to authorities.
And on the endangered species, the Cites-contract of course. Appendix-lists with animals, birds and plant that can't be brought to EU area unless they have papers that they have been bred in captivity, and so forth. I know that people can't sell even a stuffed endangered birds (like certain owls) unless they have cites-certificate.
Maybe it is, if you had started the conversation by something like "so you're twisted and sick idiot from Hausjärvi, neh? Wow, you look almost human! Wouldn't imagine you can be that weird" :D
These comments are correct, if not, then they should be. For my original response I was only reading the laws and statutes on endangered and otherwise protected. Items that concern wildlife can be found in hunting statutes, animal rights acts, and a few other tangential legistlations.
I wasn't able to find on quick search the general prohibition of disturbance of nesting; however, it can be derived from the prohibition of disturbing nesting of game species and the prohibition of protected species; a claim can be made that when approaching a nesting area it is not possible to avoid disturbing all the hatching activities there, not only the unprotected species. I haven't made a thorough search yet, though.
I came through this when I searched for keeping species that live in nature to the country (I've no clue on English word for that. Luonnonvarainen.) In the law it was stated that when an animal is injured or ill, it can be taken in and cared back to health, but then must be released back into wild or if it cannot live in wild, killed. On same time I also found the disturbing of nesting, which is of help when convincing people not to take baby birds or rabbits from wild, but of course I didn't save the links *smacks head*
Could it b found with "rauhoitettu" -search word? If I remember correctly, the wording was "rauhoitettuja ovat myös pesät ja poikaset pesimiskautena" (=protected are also nests and babies during breeding season). It also forbade collecting eggs from nest.
There are points of protection and then occasionally it gets a little insane, where I'm from it's a one car road and the protection of the birds means that sometimes the sides of the roads get dangerous for cyclists from the overgrown brambles which can't be cut until after the breeding season... which is defined very vaguely, march until sometimes september, nasty cuts can ensue and have for me on occasions.
Eeep. thet is one hefty flock. Nope, didn't catch that one, we rarely have time to drive to see natural birds in wild. Most we have to do with them is when people bring the injured ones here. But seeing that makes me wish I had seen it. Must be even more impressive in the wild.
Makes me wonder how the flocks of passenger pigeons must have looked like.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
From:
no subject
Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora
This convention has been enacted as local law in many European countries.
Law on protection of environment, enacted by the Finnish Parliament:
The law and related statutes refer to EU directives and the CITES convention, links above.
Disclaimer: translations are mine and I am not accustomed to work with juridical texts. Finnish laws and statutes are in general, however, fairly straightforward and do not stagger under "whereas" and "party of the third part" constructs.
From:
no subject
From:
no subject
And on the endangered species, the Cites-contract of course. Appendix-lists with animals, birds and plant that can't be brought to EU area unless they have papers that they have been bred in captivity, and so forth. I know that people can't sell even a stuffed endangered birds (like certain owls) unless they have cites-certificate.
From:
Re: Totally irrelevant to the discussion
From:
Re: Totally irrelevant to the discussion
From:
Re: Totally irrelevant to the discussion
:D
From:
no subject
I wasn't able to find on quick search the general prohibition of disturbance of nesting; however, it can be derived from the prohibition of disturbing nesting of game species and the prohibition of protected species; a claim can be made that when approaching a nesting area it is not possible to avoid disturbing all the hatching activities there, not only the unprotected species. I haven't made a thorough search yet, though.
From:
no subject
Could it b found with "rauhoitettu" -search word? If I remember correctly, the wording was "rauhoitettuja ovat myös pesät ja poikaset pesimiskautena" (=protected are also nests and babies during breeding season). It also forbade collecting eggs from nest.
From:
no subject
From:
no subject
From:
no subject
From:
no subject
Those birds are a hazard for aviation, I say! ;)
From:
no subject
Makes me wonder how the flocks of passenger pigeons must have looked like.