Two Maltese citizens were among four individuals arrested in Sicily over the suspected trafficking of 1,500 protected birds ...

BirdLife Malta calls decision a pre-election manoeuvre that puts Malta in breach of EU law and leaves the countryside open to ...

BirdLife Malta on Sunday strongly condemned the Government's decision, announced through the Wild Birds Regulation Unit (WBRU), to reopen applications for new General Trapping Licences. This move ...

VALLETTA (Reuters) - The Maltese government surprised bird hunters on Thursday when it did an abrupt U-turn and said it was halting, with immediate effect, the traditional spring hunting season which ...

The European Parliament’s petitions committee has adopted a report backing banning bird hunting in Malta during the spring season, attracting vitriol from the small state’s big hunting lobby. “The ...

VALLETTA (Reuters) - Hunters on the Mediterranean island of Malta have won a referendum to let them continue to hunt migrating birds in spring, a centuries-old tradition not allowed anywhere else in ...

Malta’s controversial spring hunt of thousands of migrating birds from Africa to Europe will remain after a referendum aimed at banning the annual hunt was defeated. The Mediterranean Island’s 340,000 ...