Hunters' billboards call for retention of trapping

The Hunters' Federation (FKNK) is to erect billboards calling for trapping to be retained. Federation spokesman Lino Farrugia said this was a tradition which had survived uninterrupted for 700 years. Furthermore, trapping was allowed in other EU...

The Hunters' Federation (FKNK) is to erect billboards calling for trapping to be retained. Federation spokesman Lino Farrugia said this was a tradition which had survived uninterrupted for 700 years.

Furthermore, trapping was allowed in other EU countries, and Maltese hunters could not be treated as second class citizens, he said. The future of trapping is currently being discussed in the Ornis committee, which advises the government on such matters.

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