MALTA FACES EUROPE WIDE PRESSURE OVER SPRING HUNT
April 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALLMALTA'S highest profile bird conservation group has called for European bird watchers to visit the Mediterranean archipelago, to embarrass its hunters during the country's controversial spring hunt. More than 100,000 birds are officially declared shot or trapped annually in Malta and under the European Union's (EU) 1979 wild birds directive, spring hunts are usually illegal because they interfere with breeding, allowed only where unusual migration patterns restrict hunting opportunities. This is alleged by new EU member Malta to justify its ...
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