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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ColD" data-source="post: 2241866" data-attributes="member: 36926">yet another emailI think I'll keep popping these onto this thread.................................Foreign ‘Birdwatchers’ again roam around Malta’s CountrysideOn the morning of last Saturday 10th instant, the Federation for Hunting & Conservation – Malta (FKNK) organised a thorough search of the whole woodland area of the Miżieb Hunting Reserve, which has been under FKNK’s management since 1986.  This intensive search, undertaken by dozens of voluntary FKNK members and their hunting dogs, was filmed and thus recorded.  Regrettably this search yielded the carcass of a dog, but no evidence of any bird carcass was found or registered anywhere in the woodland.‘Around midday’ of Sunday 11th September, by which time all the hunters of the Miżieb area had left because of yet again the total lack of any migrating game-birds, seven foreign ‘birdwatchers’ who are at present in Malta, carried out ‘a random search’ also at Miżieb, and allegedly registered the find of no less than 7 bird carcasses.  The same group of ‘birdwatchers’ have daily also registered the ‘weak migration’, which the FKNK can confirm as one of the weakest in living memory for this time of year.  It should also be noted that unauthorised persons are not allowed entry into the Miżieb Hunting Reserve during the hunting open season, which on Sundays is open till 13:00 hours.Finally, the FKNK is sure that the Police can prevent further similar incidents that last year led to an illegal arrest of an FKNK member who is also in charge of the area.  This provocation has to stop and the FKNK looks forward to the Police cooperation as always, to take action in this regard in order to avoid further incidents. Lino FarrugiaSecretary General - FKNK</blockquote>

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