Go to the Content Thursday, 9 February 2012
Your search for "Hunting" produced 40 items.
| 1. Work on the wild side | December 9, 2010 |
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Ester Peeters on job with the Belgian government that involves some trips to the countryside and handling religious sensitivities. There are not many government positions... |
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| 2. Violence against conservationists in Malta | July 8, 2010 |
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The effects of the smear campaign against bird conservationists in Malta should not be minimised. The Maltese hunting lobby denies the true scale of illegal hunting and also... | |
| 3. Critique of Maltese hunters is wrong and alarmist | July 1, 2010 |
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There is no hate campaign against conservationists in Malta. We refute the accusations Geoffrey Saliba of BirdLife Malta (BLM) made against us in his letter (“Illegal... |
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| 4. Illegal hunting in Malta | June 17, 2010 |
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Poaching in Malta is 'not significant'? That is a ludicrous claim by a hunting lobby that is running a hate campaign against conservationists. The letters submitted by two... |
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| 5. Maltese hunters are not fair game | May 27, 2010 |
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Confronting criticism of hunters. Caroline Muscat's commentary on your pages (“Malta's birds need greater protection”, 6-11 May) contained inaccuracies and, in our... |
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| 6. Hunting criticism needs to be shot down | May 27, 2010 |
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Malta's spring hunting season is legal and well managed. Caroline Muscat's article on your pages (“Malta's birds need greater protection,” 6-11 May), contains, in my... |
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| 7. Greens in the crosshairs | October 1, 2009 |
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Maltese hunters feel the strain. This is not a good time to be a hunter in Malta. First, the European Court of Justice rules that they can no longer shoot common quail and... | |
| 8. Proposed seal-trade ban harpooned | January 22, 2009 |
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Author of European Parliament report describes proposed ban as “worst of both worlds”; Greenland brings case against ban to Brussels.
A proposal from the European... | |
| 9. Maltese bird hunt judged illegal | April 25, 2008 |
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European Court of Justice ruling brings ban on spring hunt one step closer. The 2008 spring bird hunting season in Malta has been outlawed by the European Court of Justice... |
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| 10. Culling of animals is necessary | March 19, 2008 |
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In response to the advertisements in your recent editions, it is the position of the Federation of Associations for Hunting and Conservation of the EU (FACE) and its 34... | |
| 11. Rare birds in peril over Malta | May 10, 2007 |
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Hunters in Malta are killing rare birds that have migrated from all over Europe, according to new statistics from the environmental campaign group BirdLife. The BirdLife... | |
| 12. Dimas's Finnish hunting party | May 11, 2006 |
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Did Stavros Dimas pack a bulletproof vest next to his toothbrush on a trip to Helsinki last week (4 May)? The last time the environment commissioner was involved with the... | |
| 13. Hunting high and low | October 16, 2003 |
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May I congratulate you for the fair and balanced way in which you dealt with the issue of hunting and conservation in European Voice, 9-15 October. However, one article... | |
| 14. Alliance in the hunt for a compromise | October 9, 2003 |
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Hunting has a long tradition in Britain, but MPs have voted to ban it. The UK's upper chamber is resisting this, along with the Countryside Alliance. James Drew finds out... | |
| 15. Hunters and birdlovers get by with a little help from the Commission | October 9, 2003 |
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HUNTERS and ornithologists may seem like strange bedfellows, but they do share a common bond: a love of the land that sustains the animals they covet. Both stalk their prey,... | |
| 16. Why it's a tough life for lynx in Estonia and finches in Malta | October 9, 2003 |
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Despite EU laws on the protection of habitats and species, a deal was struck allowing two of the accession countries to maintain their hunting traditions, writes David... | |
| 17. Cultures, not Commission, should have the last word | October 9, 2003 |
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Hunting is an issue that generates passions - on all sides of the debate. Here, Martin Banks reports on the pro-hunt MEPs who argue that member states, not Brussels, should... | |
| 18. Hunting directive breach could place Greece in the dock | February 13, 2003 |
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GREECE could face action in the European Court of Justice for breaching a directive which prohibits the hunting of wild birds in their migration period. The current Greek... | |
| 19. Cultural prejudice | January 30, 2003 |
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Clifford Hassell (Letters, 23-29 January) expresses his disgust of Greek (and other European) cultures, based on your report on Greek abattoirs (European Voice, 16-22... | |
| 20. Euro MPs deride leghold trap agreement with US | December 18, 1997 |
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MEPS this week launched a bitter attack on the last-minute deal struck between the EU and Washington on the phase-out of controversial leghold animal traps, but acknowledged... | |
