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Malta 2013: ‘Hunters’ gun down another Pallid Harrier

Malta has European permission to hunt Turtle Doves and Quail? Malta’s hunters behave responsibly? Malta’s hunters are conservationists? Malta’s hunters abide the law? No. Utter, utter nonsense. The truth? Many of Malta’s ‘hunters’ are macho thugs who – with what …

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Universal Society of Hinduism urges tourism boycott of Malta

Press-release from Rajan Zed, Universal Society of Hinduism, 26 April 2013

 

  • Hindus urge Malta tourism boycott if it failed to curb illegal bird hunting Expressing shock at the

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How bad is illegal hunting in Malta? Send in the troops…

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

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Malta: Conservation the FKNK way…

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

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TN110 Malta – answering the hunters

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

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Malta’s ‘law-abiding’ hunters gun down a Pallid Harrier

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

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Malta: International volunteers arrive for spring conservation camp

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

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Malta – Spring hunting season opens: more hunters, same enforcement

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

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TN109 Lawrie Phipps: Malta – is it time for the B word?

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

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BirdLife Malta: Spring Hunting Season Could Be A ‘Free for All’

Once again the hunting lobby in Malta declares itself above EU law - and this time they have government support:

Press-release from BirdLife Malta 26 March 2013

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