• Bird trapping on the Egyptian coast

  Kilometres of mist net along the Mediterranean shore, catching migrants as they make landfall, and the visiting hunters who travel to shoot elsewhere.

• Optics companies sell to birders and to hunters

  The same manufacturers supply both markets and sponsor both worlds. Whether that should trouble a birdwatcher choosing binoculars is worth arguing out.

• Poisoned Oriental Storks, and a shift in Chinese conservation

  An Endangered stork poisoned at a wetland in Tianjin, and the response that followed: rescue, media coverage and public anger from inside China.

• Trophy hunting, outrage, and what the photograph does not show

  A hunting photograph goes round the world and the argument becomes about one person. The industry behind it is barely touched by that.

• What an open spring hunting season did in Malta

  Monitoring camps in 2011 recorded nearly 950 shots outside hunting hours and dozens of protected birds shot at, more than the three previous years.

Notesshort entries, not full articles

• Ceri Levy on what Malta is actually like

  A documentary filmmaker's reaction to seeing the illegal shooting of migrants first-hand, recorded shortly after returning.

• Geoffrey Saliba on illegal hunting in Malta

  A second conversation with BirdLife Malta's campaigns coordinator on the illegal shooting and trapping of migrating birds, and what campaigning costs.

• Martin Hellicar on ambelopoulia and bird trapping in Cyprus

  Blackcaps trapped in their hundreds of thousands for an illegal delicacy, and the campaign against a trade with a substantial commercial value.

• Terry Townshend on illegal mist-netting in China

  Millions of birds a year taken in illegal nets, and the Chinese activists documenting and dismantling them.