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Five years of saving seabirds: summing up the LIFE Arċipelagu Garnija project
This month marks the end of another successful seabird project for BirdLife Malta – LIFE Arċipelagu Garnija. After five years of hard work it’s time to look back on the highlights of what the LIFE Arċipelagu Garnija team have achieved, and what’s next. Getting started The LIFE Arċipelagu Garnija project started in 2015 with the focus on a long-term recovery of the Yelkouan Shearwater (Puffinus yelkouan) in Malta…
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On guard during spring migration
When people hear that I am working and living in Malta, they imagine me sunbathing on an idyllic island surrounded by the azure waters of Mediterranean Sea. It is like that indeed, however, some troubles can happen even in paradise. For example, if the hunting season is open during the peak migration of a bird…
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Opening the trapping season is a desperate and defiant move by Prime Minister Robert Abela
Birdlife Malta has written to EU Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius 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…
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Prime Minister given the wrong advice to challenge the EU and the European Court
It is incredible that hunters and trappers are once again to be granted privileges on completely wrong premises. In the past days everyone became aware of how large stretches of public land in Miżieb and L-Aħrax tal-Mellieħa were gifted to hunters. The last time there was a similar attempt was in March 1986, 34 years…
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