📢 Malta’s spring #hunting season 2024 for the red-listed #TurtleDove is now officially open ‼️

🕊 As of today (17 April), Turtle-doves can now be hunted with an overall bag limit of 1,500 birds as permitted by law following the publication of yesterday’s legal notice by the…

🇲🇹 Jumejn wara l-ftuħ tal-istaġun tal-kaċċa tar-rebbiegħa 2024, li sa issa suppost hu miftuħ biss għas-Summien, BirdLife Malta ġabret l-ewwel vittma tal-kaċċa illegali għal dan l-istaġun - #BagħdanAħmar li nstab il-Ġimgħa minn membru tal-pubbliku fil-Qajjenza.

Il-Bagħdan Aħmar…

This female blackcap was found stuck to a limestick by our CABS teams currently on the ground in #Cyprus .

Targeted by poachers to be killed & eaten as a ‘traditional’ delicacy known as #ambelopoulia .

After careful clean up by our expert team she was back on the wing! 🕊️❤️

Although the Turtle-dove (Gamiema) spring hunting season does not open before the 17th of April and hunting for the #EuropeanTurtleDove is therefore still illegal, BirdLife Malta #SpringWatch volunteers have already today observed hunting on this Vulnerable species.

Our…

Ares77 Committee Against Bird Slaughter (CABS) SPNL x.com/birddetectivet…

⚠️ Malta’s sister island is of Gozo a hotspot for illegal bird trapping!

In March, CABS teams found:

✅ 13 huge bird trapping sites & had them shut by Gozo police:

✅ 22 nets

✅ 8 electronic decoys

✅ 18 trappers convicted

✅ 55 birds, inc. finches & golden plovers seized💥

Committee Against Bird Slaughter (CABS) SPNL This is heartbreaking and continues to happen in various countries. Why do people not understand we have to live alongside other species rather than killing or persecution all the time. Very sad.

𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚 📢 Court provisionally accepts BirdLife Malta’s request for injunction on spring hunting for European Turtle-dove ‼️

Following yesterday’s #ORNIS Committee vote to recommend a spring hunting season on the Vulnerable #EuropeanTurtleDove , BirdLife Malta has today…

Ornis Committee recommends spring hunting despite turtle dove controversy timesofmalta.com/article/ornis-…

Bird smuggling ring: police arrest two, seize 2,500 stuffed birds timesofmalta.com/article/bird-s…