The Federation for Hunting and Conservation (FKNK) 'announced' today that the Maltese government with FKNK’s help 'is ready to correctly apply a derogation from the “Birds” Directive to permit a limited and controlled hunting and trapping open season for turtle dove and the quail in April 2013'.

In a statement, the FKNK  congratulated the Labour Party and Prime Minister Joseph Muscat for their election victory.

"The FKNK is convinced that the Labour Party Movement in government will restore hunters and trappers and their respective families’ dignity and respect, besides their national Maltese and Gozitan and European citizen rights.  This includes these thousands of families’ rights to enjoy their privately owned Maltese countryside land," the federation said.

"The FKNK is set to carry on with the good work that it had ongoing with a Labour Party Working Group for the last three years, which led to the issuing of the Labour Party/FKNK joint media release of the 4 March 2013.  Thus, in the wake of a new spring, and on the bases of the media release, the Maltese government with FKNK’s aid is ready to correctly apply a derogation from the “Birds” Directive to permit a limited and controlled hunting and trapping open season for the turtle dove and the quail this April 2013," the FKNK added.

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