European Court shoots down Malta’s hunters

By Charlie • April 28, 2008 • 2 comments

The European Court has ruled that Malta has no special reason to continue spring hunting and that it must stop NOW. The hunters are stunned, green groups are ecstatic, migrant birds are surviving their stopover on the usually blood-soaked archipelago - but for how long will peace reign? Have a look at www.maltastar.com and judge for yourself…

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Charlie

Charlie works for an airline and has birded all over the world for twenty years. He wants to be a writer, and thinks no-one would believe his life could be so charmed if he didn't take photos of as many of the birds he sees as possible. Blogging with 10,000 Birds fits his aims, needs, and insecurities perfectly. Really - do birders get much more fortunate than this?

2 Responses to “European Court shoots down Malta’s hunters”

Jochen Apr 28th, 2008 at 3:40 am

Yay, it’s so good to have the EU.
Sorry to all the Brits reading this, but on this one, you’ll have to agree: the EU can be phantastic at times!
Charlie Apr 28th, 2008 at 3:48 am

I agree actually. They’ve stopped me being ‘retired’ at 55 and now I can go on pushing trollies up and down an aircraft FOREVER… - but hitting those throwbacks in Malta is even better than that!