All posts tagged birdlife malta

Where in Europe could the allowing of so-called 'legal spring hunting' (a misnomer in the first place) and already ridiculously high quotas be so massively taken advantage of

Press-release from BirdLife Malta concerning the FKNK, Malta's vociferous hunting organisation which attempts (like so many hunting organisations across the world) to offset its destructive activities by calling

A conversation with guests Nik Barbara, BirdLife Malta’s conservation manager, Lawrie Phipps, a Trustee with the League against Cruel Sports and a conservationist who has been

Lobbyists for Malta's motley collection of 'legal' hunters routinely whine that overseas nationals and conservation organisations should keep their noses out of Malta's business (thus allowing the more

BirdLife Malta: International volunteers arrive for spring conservation camp as spring hunting derogation claims first victims

Press-release from BirdLife Malta: Saturday 13th April 2013

• Spring Watch, BirdLife

BirdLife Malta, Tuesday, 9th April 2013:

• After attending two meetings of the newly formed Derogation Monitoring Board, BirdLife Malta today concluded that the enforcement of the new

A conversation with Lawrie Phipps, birder and trustee of the League against Cruel Sports, who has been out to Malta several times to support the work of

Press-release from BirdLife Malta www.birdlifemalta.org/view.aspx?id=375 explaining how Malta's hunters are still killing Europe's protected birds - many of which will have had conservation funding spent on them

Two images. The first is from Wikipedia, posted here under a general licence, that shows what most of us would envisage when we think of a Cory's Shearwater: