A Birdlife International news item concerning a CPEF grant to Lebanon to bring hunting under control carries a photograph of a dead buzzard.

This picture, which originally was taken by Graham Madge of the RSPB, was reportedly shot in Malta six years ago. It appeared on BBC news on October 1, 2008 and, apart from the local media, has done the rounds of all international birding sites and media.

Lebanon has a despicable reputation for hunting atrocities that would surely not necessitate using that picture. One wonders how often pictures of dead birds attributed to Maltese law breakers have been fake and whether pictures from different angles of the same dead birds have been repeatedly used by the media to accommodate the bad publicity the anti-hunting lobby thrives on.