Some people contest the fact that bird trapping or hunting are a traditional socio-cultural activity.

If any of those sharing this idea do not agree that trapping is a tradition, then what would one call a practice inherited from father to son that has been in existence for hundreds of years if not traditional? A practice that has its rudimentary basics unchanged since the time of its conception, namely that of capturing birds. Birds which according to acceptable international laws and regulations are legal quarry.

If a practice of 30,000 plus, that is definitely traditional, cannot be termed as a socio-cultural activity, what would one call such practices it if not a combination of social and cultural factors for those that practice them? Culture is considered as the customary beliefs or practices of a racial, religious, or social group shared by people in a place or time that characterises an institution or organisation. Can anyone honestly state that trapping or hunting are not part of our culture?

A passion is described as a strong liking or desire for or devotion to some activity, object or concept. So trapping and hunting are definitely a passion.

There might be a few abolitionists that oppose it with a vengeance. Even resorting to insult by terming hunters and trappers as being too ignorant to express such complicated words. Their comments support their senseless arguments and this sort will be the least to gain credibility. They are what society terms as unacceptable and often the most dangerous, since their ideology, as has often been the case worldwide, is normally turned into hatred and often violence.

What one has to bear in mind to be considered as logical is that the practices of trapping and hunting have to change with the times. This is no less to what the FKNK are suggesting. Certainly in a civilised society abolition, as suggested by the abolitionist and as deviously being "scientifically proven" by BirdLife Malta, is no option.

Hunting and trapping are traditional socio-cultural passions that are here to stay.