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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nightranger" data-source="post: 1314561" data-attributes="member: 64473">Thank you. So why did you try to infer that the RSPB was claiming 300 red kites lost to illegal activities in your original post mentioning this figure? This is a typical Internet forum trick in quoting the figure that best suits the argument. Would you care to keep going with your Birdlife figures for other years or would you rather stop with the figure that best suits your argument here too?Notes for anyone following this thread but not adding their comments: I am well aware that Gallina is quoting figures that only relate to those cases recovered and he knows this too. However, we already have evidence from Gallina's own keyboard that Malta is not tackling the problem because the numbers have risen just in the time he wants you to consider. Given that Malta had given promises to the EU to implement the rules at this point, it is not the best advert for what Gallina wants us to believe anyway. Put it another way, Birdlife figures are a 100% increase on the number of illegal species killed from the previous year's figures. Even allowing for the fact that numbers have been under-represented due to the lack of evidence, this is not a very good testament.</blockquote>