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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jos Stratford" data-source="post: 1298068" data-attributes="member: 12449"><p>Relatively stable populations in eastern Europe, but that aside it is disgusting that Malta is killing the birds we elsewhere in Europe are doing our best to protect - that Lesser Spotted Eagle could be one of the birds that Marcus talks of, thus wasting the work and money of conservationists there, or it could be one of my pairs that breeds on my land. Either way, why is Malta allowed to get away with it? European tax payers are funding projects to the tune of hundreds of thousands of euros and how do the Maltese repay us? Answer, by sticking their two fingers up at EU law and killing our birds.</p></blockquote><p></p>