Organisers of pro-hunting petition resort to scare tactics

BirdLife Malta, a partner in the Campaign to Abolish Spring Hunting, has claimed that the organisers of a petition aimed at preventing a referendum on spring hunting is collecting signatures on false pretences, and in some cases using intimidation and threats.

Furthermore, the organisation says that the petition itself is gathering signatures on the false assumption that it is about hobbies in general - as opposed to only hunting in spring - and that other pastimes may be threatened by the referendum: a prospect which CASH vehemently denies.

Read more of this story on today's newspaper edition of MaltaToday.