Tag Archive: illegal
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Malta flouts EU law and court rulings by reopening illegal bird trapping season
October 23, 2025 12:59 pmMalta has once again reopened the trapping season for finches, golden plovers and song thrushes, directly challenging the European Court...
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BirdLife Malta hits out at Robert Abela for disguising ‘trapping’ as a scientific ringing project
October 20, 2025 3:31 pmBirdLife Malta strongly condemns the Maltese Prime Minister’s decision to weaken the laws regulating scientific bird ringing in a clear...
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Lead ammunition finally banned from wetlands across the EU
February 14, 2023 9:39 pmAs of today, the 15th of February 2023, using lead shot ammunition in wetlands is illegal in all 27 EU...
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Turtle-dove hunting in spring is illegal
November 10, 2022 12:40 pmBirdLife Malta has today filed a Court case challenging the decision – taken by the Ministry for Gozo and the...
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Court provisionally accepts BirdLife Malta request for injunction on spring hunting for Turtle-dove
April 13, 2022 11:06 amHunting season on Vulnerable European Turtle-dove cannot open on Sunday BirdLife Malta is very satisfied to receive the Court notification...
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Warrant of Prohibitory Injunction filed to stop slaughter of protected Turtle-doves during spring
April 11, 2022 3:04 pmThis year’s spring hunting derogation for the Vulnerable European Turtle-dove is illegal BirdLife Malta has earlier today filed a Warrant...
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Help us protect migratory birds this spring…volunteer to join our Spring Watch!
January 21, 2022 1:36 pmIt is just before dawn when a female Kestrel wakes and opens her wings, preparing for flight. She is ready to leave her roost and, with a strong...
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Highly protected Egyptian Vulture’s migration cut short over Malta
September 15, 2021 4:38 pmAn Egyptian Vulture from an Italian conservation reintroduction programme in Italy, which landed in the Maltese Islands yesterday to rest,...
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Hunter filmed instructing child to shoot from FKNK-managed Miżieb
May 3, 2021 12:27 pmFollowing the incident reported by the media involving a hunter who was filmed instructing a child to shoot a gun...
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The turtle-dove – the epitome of the magical spring season!
April 26, 2021 9:22 amNo other bird brings to mind the spring migration than the European Turtle-dove (Gamiema in Maltese). It personifies the struggle...
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