FKNK call on trappers not to attend BirdLife meetings
FKNK demands right to trap birds instead of breeding captive finches as mandated by EU law.
8 February 2011, 12:00am
Matthew Vella
Matthew Vella
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Hunters’ federation (FKNK) secretary-general Lino Farrugia has told trappers not to attend local council meetings addressed by BirdLife Malta officials on the creation of captive breeding programmes.
The programmes were mandated by the European Union as party of the total ban on finch-trapping that began in 2009, as according to the Birds Directive, the law that regulates all hunting and trapping in the EU.
BirdLife’s campaign to institute the captive breeding programme was financed by €175,000 in EU funds, Farrugia said, who warned trappers that their collaboration would only increase funds for BLM.
“BirdLife’s campaign is coming to an end, and it seems like they will not get any more money from government’s end if they have less contact with trappers,” Farrugia said.
The FKNK said it was exhorting trappers not to attend the meetings because they would be generating revenue for BirdLife and hammering the final nails in the coffin of bird trapping.
Matthew Vella, a freelance journalist at MaltaToday, was formerly executive editor at Malt...
