Turtle Dove. Author Unknown.
Malta's spring hunting referendum resulted in the country voting in a national poll to allow the privilege of a few to continue to kill for fun in spring. The rapidly declining Turtle Dove and Quail will be/will have been legally shot this spring, along with other species in their thousands.
Truly amazing this isn't it, it's all illegal under the terms of the island's membership of the EU, and as such they could be thrown out, but nobody does anything about it, or more to the point maybe doesn't want to do anything about it.
Quail. Author Unknown.
It is unfortunate that amongst other campaigners, an independent team led by Chris Packham last year to address this issue and to confront the shooters, has had no impact this time, but I'm convinced nobody will be giving up the fight against this tragic situation both in Malta and elsewhere in the world.
Meanwhile some slaughtering back home....
I've deleted the authors name as I have no permission to publish it and am not prepared to do so without it. Iv'e also deleted the opening comments which are irrelevant to the main subject, but otherwise have copied word for word what was said in the thread but not including the sign.
Pete Woodruff.
Everyone - birders or not - should be aware that
three male Hen Harriers have gone missing from active nests in
Bowland.
Anonymous
….but I did notice that beneath the road sign
denoting the boundary of the Forest of Bowland ANOB (between Dolphinholme
and Abbeystead) someone had added a second handwritten sign which read 'Twinned with Malta'.
Pete Woodruff
Now more bad news.
More bad news from me is that 'other things' have taken me over for at least four days, but looking like the possibility of a week off the road with no birding/blogging.
Well, that won't drastically change anyone's life at all....but it certainly will mine.
Thanks for all the information and keeping us all upto date on what`s going on home and abroad Pete.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the update, Pete, and the note on the witticism, which would have brought a smile to my face if it weren't for the tragic underlying story.
ReplyDeleteI hope that the 'other things' are not too dramatic and I look forward to your return. Best wishes - - - Richard