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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Paul Chapman" data-source="post: 3200059" data-attributes="member: 69491">The longest standing thread is here dating from 29.08.11 with the twists and turns of the campaign:-<a href="http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=209744" target="_blank">http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=209744</a>I holidayed in Malta for maybe seven consecutive summers as a child (whilst already a developing keen young birder) and I recall virtually no birds. They were holidays in mid-summer in the late 70's and early 80's and the venue was chosen by my well-meaning parents.I've just dug Fatal Flight off the shelf and re-read the dedication - 'To those who strive for conservation without seeking personal gain'. As apt now as it was then. It was published in 1992. My thoughts are with those who have fought for two decades and more. You will succeed.I don't know whether to try and cheer myself up by thinking the modern statistics for fatalities must be better than those catalogued in Fatal Flight or depressing myself further by thinking that those number of migrants probably no longer occur because the populations have been impacted so much.All the best</blockquote>