“We have entered a dark age for the environment in Malta” – BirdLife

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"We have entered a dark age for the environment in Malta" - BirdLifeBirdLife Malta has said that, “opening the trapping season is a desperate and defiant move by Prime Minister Robert Abela. We have entered a dark age for the environment in Malta.”

In a statement on Monday, Birdlife Malta confirmed that it has written to EU Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevicius “pointing out the desperate and defiant move” by Prime Minister Robert Abela on behalf of the Government of Malta to reopen the trapping season even though the European Court of Justice (ECJ) decreed against the opening of the trapping seasons in 2014 to 2017 (judgement dated 21st June 2018).

“This is a desperate attempt to bow to a small vociferous lobby that is being allowed to trap seven species of finches under the premise of a research project,” stated BirdLife Malta CEO Mark Sultana.

He argued that, “everyone knows that the absolute majority of trappers will keep the birds caught since they know that there is no monitoring and enforcement. The trapping season, with the excuse of research, is a sick joke.”

Sultana concluded, “apart from this, it is a known fact that the numbers of birds hunted or trapped and reported by Maltese hunters and trappers over the years is far below the numbers caught.”

File photo: BLM

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    1 Response

    1. Dietmar Treptow says:

      As long your Parties needs VOTES – NOTHING will be change
      – i am wrong ???

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