BirdLife office inundated with shot protected birds and illegal hunting reports
Over the last three weeks since the end of BirdLife Malta’s Raptor Camp, the BirdLife office continued to receive shot protected birds and reports of widespread shooting and killing of birds of prey and herons, particularly following unstable weather over the Mediterranean during this last week. Stormy weather at the beginning of the week brought [...]
Continue reading...Osprey ringed in Germany found shot in Malta
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
An Osprey ringed in Germany by NABU (BirdLife Partner) as part of a conservation project was recovered by the ALE and BirdLife Malta (BirdLife Partner) yesterday afternoon, shortly after being illegally shot in the Salina Bird Sanctuary.
Continue reading...Maltese hunters have spoonbills in their sights
Friday, September 24, 2010
Malta has been shamed yet again by its illegal bird hunters who have blasted a number of Spoonbills Platalea leucorodia this week.
Continue reading...BirdLife Malta Raptor Camp – September 2010 Video
Friday, September 17, 2010
Raphael Vassallo joins BirdLife Malta (BirdLife Partner) and the Campaign Against Bird Slaughter (CBAS) on their Raptor Watch camp in the Maltese countryside, monitoring for illegal hunting and trapping.
Continue reading...BirdLife fieldworker assaulted by illegal trapper
Friday, August 6, 2010
A BirdLife Malta fieldworker was physically attacked and injured by an individual illegally trapping waders adjacent to the Salina Bird Sanctuary.
Continue reading...Malta Spring hunting is unlawful
Friday, May 14, 2010
The new derogation contravenes the requirements of the EU Birds Directive as it clearly fails to satisfy the key conditions required by EU legislation: Turtle Dove Streptopelia turtur and Common Quail Coturnix coturnix are in unfavourable conservation status in Europe and as required by the Commission’s guidance on hunting, no derogation for these species should be allowed.
Continue reading...New spring hunting season in Malta
Thursday, April 15, 2010
The shameful decision by the Maltese Government to open the spring hunting season in 2010 is a set back for nature conservation, which is particularly disturbing as 2010 is supposed to be the ‘International Year of Biodiversity’.
Continue reading...120,000 people call for a stop to illegal hunting on Malta
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
BirdLife Malta (BirdLife Partner) have received reports about a series of illegal shooting incidents as the spring migration starts on the island. In recent days BirdLife Malta was given four protected birds of prey with gun shot injuries as reports of illegal hunting increased. These included Lesser Kestrel Falco naumanni (Vulnerable), Common Kestrel Falco tinnunculus [...]
Continue reading...Translator
 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
News Map
- UPDATE: over 866,000 birds slaughtered so far this autumn in Cyprus! - Sign the petition to stop this now!
- 89,225 birds slaughtered…so far! - Sign the petition to stop it now!
- Help required to end hunting massacre in Nagaland, India
- SAVE Brasil calls on us all to join the campaign against changes to Brazil’s forest law
- Call for Proposals: 2012 Conservation Leadership Programme Awards
- Tragic impact on wildlife from New Zealand oil disaster
- Save the Danube - 'The Amazon of Europe'- from destruction!
- Panama Bay developers threaten to break the chain of shorebird stopover sites
- We need your vote to save the albatross
- A call to action for Australian birds
- Norita Scott Pezet: I have known Alberto Yanosky since our early days....
- Nick Askew: Congratulations Alberto. Well deserved indeed!...
- Colin Burnham: Don't you find that talking to brain dead homo sap...
- Eleazar O'Connor: More of these exchanges will certainly build a tre...
- Swati Gupte: We need to take a call on this mindless slaughteri...
- Birds indicate a planet in peril, but investing in conservation makes economic sense
- BirdLife World Congress, the most energising and inspiring event in the conservation calendar, opens in Ottawa
- Guyra’s Yanosky recognised as a leader of conservation in Latin America
- Suwarrow Blog 20 – A bright future for conservation in the Cook Islands
- State of Fiji's birds report launched
- Suwarrow Blog 18 - Farewell Suwarrow
Monday, October 18, 2010
3 Comments