The Spring Hunting season closed yesterday and Parliamentary Secretary for Animal Rights Roderick Galdes now has two tasks in his intray: the setting up of the Wildlife Crime Unit and obtaining a derogation for autumn trapping.

He also told Times of Malta that a “technical loophole” has been found that would allow the Government to present proposals to the European Union to allow bird trapping in autumn.

When asked if trapping would include finches, a sore point for ornithologists, he said: “That could be possible – but one has to see.”

Full story in The Times of Malta.

 

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