About 50 weak birds requiring rehabilitation, which were seized from a smuggler last Monday, are being kept in “some office somewhere”, highlighting the absence of an adequate facility to hold them in.
The birds are from a batch of more than 800 protected finches found in vegetable crates aboard the catamaran from Sicily.
Informed sources said the 50 birds are being held in “some office somewhere” and their condition was not known.
Read more in Times of Malta.