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Hunters' federation against proposed Ghadira road

The Federation for Hunting & Conservation today urged the government to reconsider its plans to build a new road at Ghadira.

The federation said it is totally against any sort of destruction of the natural habitat, be this protected by some environment legislation or otherwise.

"In this sense the FKNK would like to encourage the Government to seriously reconsider and seek more environment friendly solutions to its existing plans to build a new road across Ghadira bay that might unnecessarily destroy natural habitat in the area in the process and at the end result."

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Richard Cachia Zammit (on 7/12/08)

@Joe Camilleri

Are you the same Joe Camilleri who on the 27th November posted the below comment???

“oh come on and let's go ahead with this project, and not because of some beetle
with seven legs we abandon a project from which all citizens will benefit from.”

If yes I find your comment here quite hypocritical.

Joe Camilleri (on 7/12/08)

@ lesley krugel
FKNK issues many positive comments, it is just that abolitionists cannot understand that hunting is legal all over the word. The person whom you said shot a robin, which is hard to belive, is called a POACHER and not a hunter.

Nodody (Birdlife and all the so called environmentalists) said nothing when hundreds of olive trees were chopped down in Mizeb because some trench that had to be done. Instead afterwards, it was the hunters again who re-planted young trees on their own without any help from ANYBODY.

charles cachia (on 7/12/08)

Do you see that this road issue is raised now to deviated from energy tariffs controversy.

J. Borg (on 6/12/08)

Bold statement by FKNK
Well done and thanks

Edwin Mifsud (on 6/12/08)

@ J BUTTIGIEG

Please educate yourself.

Where nature is concerned an animal in captivity is as good as dead, as it is removed from the delicate balance of the web of life.

Homo sapiens are a new species on this planet and all animals bread well enough before our intervention.

It’s also good to know that 21 animal spieces are extinct from the face of the earth EVERY DAY!!!

M Borg (on 6/12/08)

If it was not for hunters and bird trappers, in Malta and Gozo we won't have half of the trees that we have today! Can all those criticising hunters and the FKNK hereunder be so kind and true gentlemen and state how many trees have they planted on their own private properties? Here we are not saying planting trees at Natura 2000 or at Ta' Qali, which i fully agree with and support, but planting trees on private owned land. We have to condemn all the poachers and what they do, but we have to take into consideration also what REAL hunters do in order to improve the environment.! Am neither a hunter nor a trapper but i was pleased to see such an article published by FKNK. Dear friends out there, it is ONLY with compromise that we can move forward in today' s world!!!!!

lesley kreupl (on 6/12/08)

Well this has to be the first positive comment issued by the FKNK that I have ever read. Well done, it goes to show that some of you might be okay after all! I still hate the guy who shot the Robin that landed on my roof though! Grow up you guys, we could all work together so well.

Jeremy Lanfranco (on 6/12/08)

I have mixed opinions to this project. I do not have anything against the project UNLESS the beach remains public. The only reason Riu Seabank and Danish Village do not have a beach concession is the public road in between. Do I smell a rat? I cannot understand how the building of a new road will stop the erosion of the beach. Can someone in favor of the project explain?

Richard Cachia Zammit (on 6/12/08)

Come on everbody...what is good is good. The FKNK could easily have said nothing but they expressed their opinion and joined all the other groups who are opposing the project so they deserve a good word this time. First time I agree with the FKNK on something so that must be an improvement.

J BUTTIGIEG (on 6/12/08)

Please grow up. In this country, if you are not a hunter or bird trapper you are against hunting .When you say you are an animal lover, it means that you take care of your pet, feed and clean every day . Bird trappers buy very expensive seeds and with succes breed them in thier aviary and help reproduction of spieces .You have to educate people and not just stop birdtrapping and hunting. By the way i am not a hunter or birdtrapper .

albert leone ganado (on 6/12/08)

So now even the FKNK wants to add it weight against the proposed road and at last has managed a word in edgeways.
How about the hunters federation organising a manifestation (as they now like to call protests) with birdlife and join in an alliance against the proposed ghadira road..

It could lead to the oddest partnership followed by the quickest dissolution ever, most certainly en quicker than that of our Trade Unions.
We are truly entering the silly festive season.

Franco Farrugia (on 6/12/08)

Well, it is quite ironic that both environmentalists as well as the non-environmentalists (the hunters) are in agreement for once.

Andrew Gatt (on 6/12/08)

X'kien!! So much more anti-hunting than anything else! Never satisfied. Never objective. Then same endless moaning from the same people. A good example of the other extreme. Poachers on one side, and rabid abolitionists on the other.

Edwin Mifsud (on 6/12/08)

emmmm

Is the hunters practice of blood sport not contributing to the "destruction of the natural habitat"?

I think NGOs like FWA, FAA, or Birdlife's contribution to the project would be much more appriciated.

A. Mizzi (on 6/12/08)

Yes, dear Government , please reconsider your plans, as hunters are against destruction of the natural habitat where they could enjoy and practice their favourite pass time and we know what that is.

Please , please , please can someone explain to me how hunters who hunt for so called sport or pass time can ever be considered as Champions of the environment and their support for such a development can be taken seriously?

Hunters' federation against proposed Ghadira road

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