Government urged to protect sensitive sites
The national trust, Din l-Art Helwa, has urged the government to do all in its power to protect and secure sensitive areas such as the country's temples and sites of environmental importance and to identify and bring vandals to justice. The call was...
The national trust, Din l-Art Helwa, has urged the government to do all in its power to protect and secure sensitive areas such as the country's temples and sites of environmental importance and to identify and bring vandals to justice.
The call was made in the wake of a number of vandal attacks over the past days, which the NGO deplored. It urged the authorities to assist BirdLife with the security measures required at the Ghadira Nature Reserve, where vandals threw bottles containing spent oil, damaging the fragile ecosystem.
Vandals also daubed pro-hunting graffiti on a bus stop and elsewhere in the vicinity of the Hagar Qim and Mnajdra Temples, near Qrendi.
More recently, spent oil was thrown on a newly-restored rubble wall in the popular beauty spot of Wied Iz-Zurrieq.