Nature Trust (Malta) has welcomed the statements on animal welfare made by the Nationalist and Labour parties when Ekoskola students recently presented the parties with a memorandum with suggestions for their respective electoral campaign.

"Both the PN and MLP leaders focused on the issue of animal welfare and gave this topic a high priority in their statements.

"Nature Trust feels that such statements augur well and hopes that the two major parties will keep up this drive in their electoral campaign thus ensuring that animal welfare will be a priority for the next government," said the NGO.