BirdLife footage shows an
official on the FKNK's Miżieb sub-committee shooting at a protected turtle dove
during the spring season • FKNK says it will take action when it has proof of
wrongdoing from the courts or the police
24 April 2018, 12:57pm
by Maria Pace
by Maria Pace
BirdLife Malta today released
exclusive footage which shows an FKNK "official" breaking the
law during this year’s spring hunging season.
In a statement, the NGO said that
the video shows Lawrence Vella, a Federation for Hunting and Conservation
official on the hunting federation’s sub-committee for Miżieb, shooting at a
protected turtle dove while hunting at Miżieb.
BirdLife said that the the area
was not normally associated with quail, the only legally huntable species
during the spring hunging season.
The footage was filmed on 16
April and at one point, according to the bird conservation group, Vella
can be seen standing up, raising his gun and shooting at a bird three times
consecutively, with the bird clearly seen in the footage falling out of the
sky.
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