“The multiculture is makeing you run.”

This needs to be on a T-shirt.

Maybe those quails were shot in the autumn. Because you know, killing a quail in the autumn gives it more time to be resurrected to reproduce the following spring.

It’s been proven that it’s possible. This government has been making one f*ck-up after the other, and it is still considered to be a virgin, Malta Today surveys show.

Fenech Adami’s government was extremely hard pressed to do something to appease the few hunters wanting to vote Yes in the EU referendum.

At the time, he faced an extremely fierce and dishonest battle against joining the EU, by the Labour Party and the GWU.

I think the hunters’ arrogance and defiance of the law is the heaviest price we have paid and are still paying for that No to EU campaign.

[Daphne – Most people know what a quail looks like, and if they don’t, this country really does have problems.]

Andrew,

The fact that the number of turtle doves and quails in spring is higher than that in autumn (albeit the data compiled by hunters’ themselves is heavily skewed due to obvious vested interests), does not justify killing them before they breed.

Moreover, by the same argument if 12 different species of bird migrate through Malta each on a different month, you will want a open season all year round.

The ‘least concern’ you quoted related previously to population worldwide – however the trends in Europe are worrisome – whereas in Malta avian fauna is still a pie in the sky.

The April spring hunting days, overlap the Easter holidays which most families look forward to, in order to spend quality time enjoying Nature blossoming (by Malta’s standards).

Moreover when one considers that hunters have five full months from September to January, wherein they can kill a wider variety of birds, not to mention the summer hunting excuse for wild rabbit, it becomes evident that, at best, hunters deem that their taste buds have overriding priority over our limited countryside – within such an overpopulated island.

The undeniable fact that time and again, hunters have killed protected birds also in spring (thus no breeding for these either), and inexplicably without ever being identified let alone turned in by their peers, confirms that during a spring hunting season such criminals can mingle around and persist in their vile acts without much concern.

WIXEN GEGEN FRÜHJAHRSJAGD!

Article came out on Monday:

“The coalition launched its referendum campaign on Saturday. Its aim is to empower people to join its ranks to put a stop to “unsustainable spring hunting.” Ms Tolu says the main reason behind all of this is the birds; spring hunting is destructive to migratory birds that fly over Malta on their way to their breeding grounds.”

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It also seems that, because our campaign has not been launched yet (the interview was conducted on Thursday), many people out there are still not well-informed about the referendum and the subject at hand.

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“We will be explaining that spring hunting is not sustainable. The number of birds shot down over Malta during spring is definitely affecting bird populations. Hunters have all of autumn to hunt in. The autumn hunting season can be sustainable if properly regulated and we have no quarrel with that issue. Autumn hunting is allowed by the EU but spring hunting is not.”

[Daphne – The logical fallacy in that last bit is that the birds shot in autumn are the very same ones which then won’t be able to migrate in spring. Whether they are shot in autumn or shot in spring, they are still eliminated from the breeding equation.]