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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fitzwallop" data-source="post: 1327001" data-attributes="member: 68928">Mr Fitzwallop, in case you didn't notice, its open season in Malta, yr definitely going to hear shots ringing out just as much as you would in the UK, Germany, Italy, Spain or France the only difference is that here, a gunshot fired off in the E would be heard in the W.That's patronising crap - and you know it. I have never heard shooting like that in the UK and I have lived in rural Cumbria for many years. For sure I have heard occasional shots ring out in the pheasant shooting season - but there is a world of difference between controlled lawful shooting on private estates and the wholesale unlimited carnage (and yes that is the right word) that goes on in your country. The shots I heard were from all directions and of many types, including semi-automatic fire. I've been to the UK, in Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter, and have witnessed first hand the taking of as many woodpigeons as possible, also from makeshift hides. Why do you try and make it seem that there's carnage of an unprescedented scale going on here? The taking of a whole season in Malta compares well to the taking of just one day in your country.In case you didn't notice my friend my country England (the UK is not a country) is slightly bigger than Malta. I do not have to make it seem that "there's carnage of an unprecedented scale going on here" as that is a simple reflection of the truth.Malta has a real problem. Unless it moves from its position of denial and defensiveness of which your posts are a glittering example the situation will never improve. Why is BirdLife Malta having to take the stance it is taking?  Malta must get a grip on its illegal and unrestricted killing of birds. If it doesn't it will face the condemnation of the civilised world, a decline in its vital tourist trade and growing isolation in the European Community it has so recently joined. The choice is yours my friend.</blockquote>

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