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BirdLife Malta “disgusted and alarmed” by ministry-funded plans

A court has provisionally upheld a request by BirdLife to stop spring hunting for turtle dove and will consider the merits of the case in a sitting on Tuesday.

Child Commissioner calls on legislators to make it illegal for minors to accompany hunters Children's Commissioner Pauline Miceli calls for amendments to the Arms Act to protect children from physical harm caused by weapons during hunting • Kaċċaturi San Ubertu accuses Miceli of being influenced by BirdLife's 'indoctrination' 4 May 2021, 2:43pm by Karl Azzopardi The Commissioner for Children Pauline Miceli has called on authorities to address inconsistencies in the Arms Act to ban minors from accompanying adults during hunting. Miceli called on authorities to pass the necessary amendmen...

Jimmy Muscat, a 44-year-old hunter from Manikata was granted bail on Wednesday after pleading not guilty to shooting a protected bird in Miżieb on Tuesday.   Police inspector Elliot Magro told Magistrate Natasha Galea Sciberras that Muscat was caught red-handed just minutes after shooting the Honey Buzzard. When members of the police’s Environment Protection Unit arrived on the scene on Tuesday afternoon, they found Muscat entering his car. They saw him place something in his jacket pocket and it resulted that these were feathers. The freshly-killed bird was found hidden under the car's f...

Protected area is managed by Kaċċaturi San Ubertu (KSU) through a management agreement by ERA