BirdLife Malta on Sunday strongly condemned the Government's decision, announced through the Wild Birds Regulation Unit (WBRU), to reopen applications for new General Trapping Licences. This move ...

Inevitably, as custodians of the IUCN Red List, BirdLife’s work is often dominated by questions of scarcity and loss, and the success of our Preventing Extinctions Programme is rightly celebrated.

BirdLife Malta (BLM) has launched a citizen activism campaign to “counter the government’s ongoing finch trapping under the guise of research.” The initiative aims to expose illegal trapping of ...

BirdLife Malta said it was once again the only organisation standing up for birds on the Ornis Committee and the strategy to water down laws aimed to conserve and protect birds continues. Yesterday, ...

In 1873, a local hunter working for German naturalist A B Meyer on the island of Sangihe, Indonesia, collected an unfamiliar blue songbird that proved to be new to science. Despite further ...

Wet fields drive away rodents, leaving barn owls without much prey, but gulls of all kinds are attracted by the water ...

I refer to the letter by Nicholas Barbara, Bird-life Malta conservation manager, entitled ‘Unsustainable spring hunting’ (The Sunday Times, February 24). The spring hunting issue has been resolved.

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