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RSPB CEO visits Flea Barn to try to find some middle ground, but Richard Negus fears the yawning chasm is too deep

European Commission task force on Birds and Habitats Directive says Malta derogation from EU ban on hunting in spring “is contrary to the Birds Directive”

The spring hunting season for quail opened this morning on Gozo and Malta. The Committee Against Bird Slaughter (CABS) said that more than 3000 hunters are permitted by he government to shoot Quail until the 30th of April, "or until the bag limit of 2400 birds is registered on the Wild Bird Regul

National quota for quail hunting set at 2,400

The migratory birds that we massacre in Malta each year, are the same birds that would otherwise ‘get back home safely’, and – in an eggshell – ‘BREED’! Therefore, killing them as they fly over Malta, also means ‘weakening the genetic stock of the surviving breeding populations, of the entire species concerned'