Tag: Hunting
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Alex Agius Saliba condemns Europe for “building weapons to kill people” after European Parliament votes on lead-hunting ban
Earlier this week, on Thursday, the European Parliament cleared the way for a ban on lead gunshot throughout Europe, following a vote in Strasbourg. Opposition to the ban raised by Malta, led to changes in the final proposal, with the full restriction now set to take effect following a seven-year transition period. The European Parliament…
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People have a right to walk in Malta’s countryside without being shot at – BirdLife Malta
We are at the stage of the the Labour government’s tenure in office when NGOs and citizens are demanding not to be shot at by the great cultural-and traditionally-rich, pro-Labour, hunting lobby of Malta. BirdLife has issued a press release about a shooting incident involving several hunters who shot at people walking their dogs in…
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Quota for Turtle-Dove hunting reached: illegalities persist
Malta’s hunting season for the European Turtle-dove has been closed after this year’s national autumn quota was reached. The Minister responsible for the environment subsequently issued notice that hunting for Turtle-dove must cease with immediate effect. Maltese law establishes a national autumn quota of 500 Turtle-doves, with the season normally allowed to run between 1…
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BirdLife Malta reports Eleonora’s Falcon shot in Ġebel Ciantar Dingli
BirdLife Malta has recovered a Eleonora’s Falcon that was shot at Ġebel Ciantar, in the limits of Dingli. The shooting took place during the rabbit-hunting season and just days before the autumn bird-hunting season opens on September 1st, including the one-month hunting period for Turtle-doves. The Eleonora’s Falcon is a protected species and cannot legally…
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Tradition as a pretext for backwardness
Being a progressive means embracing change, innovation and technology under a principled guiding aim to better and improve society intellectually, materially and culturally. Being a conservative means fighting for the established normative order in all its spheres, including culturally and economically, and hence embracing tradition is politically a conservative principle. The very essence and even…
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A fight for no accountability
Hunters and fireworks producers are once again uniting behind Labour in their demand for no accountability. This fight is being propped up by Labour’s publicly funded propaganda machine and driven by outright lies and disinformation. This goes along with the core of Labour’s current political philosophy: a self-serving populism that empowers the worst elements of…
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Malta Rangers Group condemn outrageous pledge by Economy Minister to overturn environmental criminal convictions
The Malta Ranger Unit has condemned a surprise pledge by Economy Minister Silvio Schembri, who promised hunters that Labour would review penalties for illegal hunting and allow hunters whose licences had been revoked by the courts to reapply for their licences. Schembri also pledged to review hunting fines, prompting concern that the Labour Party is…
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Turtle-Dove hunting season opens despite ongoing illegalities
Despite multiple illegalities being reported since the opening of Quail-hunting season on April 13th, the hunting season for the endangered Turtle Dove has opened until the 1st of May, with up to 1,500 Turtle Doves allowed to be killed. The quota for Quail was set at 2,400 birds. A hunter has recently been jailed after…
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Green Party and BirdLife condemn the opening of Spring Hunting Season
ADPD, the Green Party, and BirdLife have condemned the recently announced decision by the Ornis Committee to open Spring Hunting Season on April 13th. The decision will once again allow the hunting of turtle-dove and quail, despite mounting scientific evidence indicating that both species—particularly the turtle-dove—are in decline across Europe. In a strongly worded statement,…
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Vote Labour: extend bad habits
Here below you may find the document the Deborah Schembri signed as Parliamentary Secretary to hand out natural parks to the Maltese hunting community. The Aħrax tal-Mellieħa and the Miżieb were eventually handed back over to the public after environmental activists challenged this highly irregular gift in Court. Environmental organisations criticised the irregular concession of…
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Alex Agius Saliba against lead-hunting ban in the EU says Europe is hyopocrite for spending on defence
The political discourse in Malta rapidly keeps deteriorating as the Labour Party politicians keep conjuring up fictional narratives and banal arguments to justify their policies and actions. In a latest statement made by Alex Agius Saliba about an EU proposed lead-ammunition hunting ban in the EU, Alex Agius Saliba told his supporters that the EU…
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Lucas Micallef: martyr for Malta’s “hobbies”
Apparently one of Malta’s “hobbies” and traditions that for Labour is worth worth defending than the environment is the habit of shooting at living beings that don’t shoot back. Lucas Micallef, the President of Malta’s main hunting group, the FKNK, is waging a political battle against the Nationalist Party in defence of his “hobby”. There…