Malta votes in a referendum Saturday which could spell an end to the long tradition of spring hunting in which birds migrating across the Mediterranean are killed before they can breed. The European ...

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Malta’s Constitutional Court has upheld a public referendum to decide the fate of the country’s controversial spring bird hunt, which kills over ten thousand migrating birds every year. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. VALLETTA (Reuters) - Malta votes in a referendum on Saturday to decide whether to overturn a law that allows the hunting of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. VALLETTA (Reuters) - Hunters on the Mediterranean island of Malta have won a referendum to let them continue to hunt migrating ...

BirdLife Malta strongly condemned the decision by the Wild Birds Regulation Unit (WBRU) to reopen applications for the transfer of stuffed protected birds between private collections, insisting the ...

Malta is a stopping-off point for some 170 species of birds migrating between Europe and Africa. But poachers kill or capture up to 200,000 wild birds every year — a problem widespread across the ...

The spring hunting of quail and turtle doves is to continue in Malta after hunters celebrated a narrow victory in a referendum which could have banned the controversial practice. Just 50.44 per cent ...

A common kestrel that was shot in October and released back into the wild in February after months of rehabilitation is among the casualties of this year's spring hunting season. The kestrel, which ...

Environment commissioner Jessika Roswall ‘confident’ a solution will be found The European Commission is “assessing” the government’s response to a judgment that found it in breach of EU bird trapping ...

VALLETTA (Reuters) - Hunters on the Mediterranean island of Malta have won a referendum to let them continue to hunt migrating birds in spring, a centuries-old tradition not allowed anywhere else in ...