Joanna DemarcoThursday, 11
January 2018, 08:09Last update: about 12 days ago
52 illegally shot, protected
birds have been reported so far since this autumn hunting season has kicked
off, causing concern to conservational NGO Bird Life, who has said that it is a
high number of reported casualties when compared to the past few years.
The hunting season is ongoing and open till the end of January.
“We usually judge the illegal
hunting situation mostly in terms by the amount of birds found by the members
of the public, that are shot and injured, and then recovered by the police, by
the authorities, or by us,” Bird Life’s conservation manager Nicholas Barbara
told The Malta Independent yesterday, following a press conference about the
situation regarding the European Court of Justice’s verdict on finch trapping
in Malta.
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