Alternattiva Demokratika was always consistent in defending Malta and Gozo's natural heritage, unlike those who discovered the environment just "weeks before elections only to forget it soon after", the chairman of the Green party, Arnold Cassola said.

An MEP candidate, Prof. Cassola was hosted by environmental NGO Nature Trust at Wied Għollieqa to visit the nature reserve together with the party's other MEP candidate Yvonne Ebejer Arqueros.

Having candidates spouting environmental rhetoric while keeping business as usual was not serious politics, he said. "Unfortunately, despite the rhetoric, the little remaining countryside is still constantly under threat, the latest example being Wied il-Għasel in Mosta," Ms Ebejer Arqueros said.

Prof. Cassola said his party had worked hand in hand with NGOs and residents in favour of the environment and against the scourge of overdevelopment.

AD, he said, would remain consistent and true to its values and principles and, together with the Green Group in the European Parliament, would work more effectively for a better quality of life for all.