BirdLife credibility at stake

Without any shadow of doubt spring hunting has been proven perfectly legal. Having run out of fools to promote a campaign to “Stop illegal spring hunting”, BirdLife Malta now declare their determination to stop spring hunting at all costs.

After years of claiming that spring hunting is illegal, conditioning the public to believe heavy fines were imminent and criticising the government of appeasing hunters and acting illegally, it now transpires that all such talk was nothing but false propaganda aimed at denying the hunter of his rights. Hunters were right in criticising BirdLife’s excesses and the government was even more correct to ignore all their vile propaganda and persevere in defending Malta’s right to derogate. Considering BirdLife state the majority of Maltese are against spring hunting, if indeed the government acted on the assumption of gaining votes, it is either foolish to ignore such a majority or in all probability, it acknowledged that the surveys which provided such findings did not give the real picture.

BirdLife have now lost their credibility. In an article in The Times, following their boycott of the Ornis meeting, the government reminded BirdLife Malta of the joint statement signed by BirdLife International and the European hunting body Face urging all parties involved to respect the court judgment. Far from respecting the court’s judgment, they have ever since been nothing but an obstacle to the course of justice and now pledge, to “fight tooth and nail for the elimination” of what even the European Commission confirms as being legal.

Now that the spring hunting season has been declared possible, according to their own website they have again invited foreigners to participate in their Spring Watch Malta camp, which forms “an integral part of BirdLife Malta’s fight against illegal spring hunting”.

BirdLife’s director reportedly proclaimed: “Spring hunting just has to stop. It’s as simple as that. The hunting of birds during spring just cannot continue. It is one of my main objectives to put an end to spring hunting”.

Following propaganda aimed at attaining their objective and their blatant disregard of an agreement to respect the court judgment, who can ever believe whatever they intend staging together with their foreign lackeys in order to prove the impact of intensive hunting. We can now only expect more of the same from our declared abolitionists who deceitfully declare not being militant.