Eight environmental organisations will be holding a national rally in Valletta on March 13 to protest against environmental abuse and lack of legal enforcement.

The rally will start at 10 a.m. from City Gate and is being organised by BirdLife Malta, Flimkien għal Ambjent Aħjar, Friends of the Earth, Greenhouse, Graffitti, the Malta Organic and Agricultural Movement, Nature Trust and the Ramblers Association.

The organisations condemned the granting of a number of permits for major projects, which they said violated the structure plan, planning authority regulations and the EU directive on public consultation.

Even though government promises were made to protect the environment, the situation had reached unacceptable proportions with irrational interpretations of the planning authority's policies, they said.

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