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BirdLife Malta – Spring hunting: Government exploiting loopholes in the Birds Directive

Thursday 3rd May, Malta – Over 730 illegal hunting incidents were recorded by BirdLife Malta’s Spring Watch teams during the spring hunting derogation period between the 12th April and 30th April, BirdLife Malta announced today. This figure is based on …

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Malta: They kill gulls, don’t they…

If you were to read (and believe) the typically querulous press-releases put out by the FKNK, Malta's mouthpiece for the illegal hunting community, you might think that the

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Times of Malta: Trapped in their home surrounded by hunters

If you don't yet understand the attitudes of the peaceful, law-abiding greens that dominate Malta's brutish poaching community, check out the comments below the article where it

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BirdLife Malta: FKNK warns poachers to ‘be careful’ about reporting their kills

While Europe's conservationists try to work out how to halt the decline in Quail and Turtle Doves - in the UK numbers of the latter have been

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BirdLife Malta: ““Malta Taking Commission for a Ride”

BirdLife Malta has released a 'no-punches-pulled' statement in response to the Maltese Goverment's disgraceful capitulation yesterday to the poachers that make up the FKNK, Malta's notoriously lawless hunting

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Malta’s hunters ‘insulted’ by being allowed by supine government to breach Birds Directive…

Malta's shameful and shameless FKNK hunting lobby - predictably, as ever, as usual etc etc - prove again to the civilised people of Europe that they are are

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Malta’s hunters out of step with conservation science (and reality) – again…

Yet again Malta's notoriously ignorant hunters have proven themselves intellectually unfit to debate the future of Europe's birds by calling for an extended Spring hunting season and removal

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CABS autumn 2011 report on illegal bird killing on Cyprus

The Committee Against Bird Slaughter (CABS) has released a disturbing report on illegal bird killing on Cyprus in autumn 2011.

 

CABS/FoE Cyprus autumn 2011 report highlights enforcement bias and

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Malta hits 10 million mark – and it’s not what you might be thinking…

A reminder that without the 'hunters' of the FKNK indiscriminately slaughtering whatever flies across the island, Malta would actually be really good for birds.

 

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Malta’s hunters and Egypt: what can we actually do?

The disturbing video put out by the Committee against Bird Slaughter (CABS) a few days ago - which I've reposted below - has (not unexpectedly) caused a

  

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