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Nicholas Barbara noted: "From what we witnessed, trappers managed to catch around 65% of the birds that landed on a trapping site, with the remainder managing to escape. In all cases of caught birds, however, these were never released. This is a far cry from any scientific research activity which the derogation is supposedly aimed for," External link

timesofmalta Thursday, March 7, 2024 at 2:53:00 PM Central European Standard Time

Nicholas Barbara stated: “With a simple and highly conservative extrapolation of what we have seen, we calculate that a minimum of 51,400 finches have been trapped from permitted sites and taken into captivity during the past season, instead of being released. This number comes out if we assume that at least one finch landed on each trapping site per day, if only 30 days of the 61-day-long season were good for trapping. From what we witnessed, trappers managed to catch around 65% of the birds that landed on a trapping site, with the remainder managing to escape. In all cases of caught birds however, these were never released. This is a far cry from any scientific research activity which the derogation is supposedly aimed for” External link

MaltaIndipendent Monday, March 4, 2024 at 10:21:00 AM Central European Standard Time

Mark Sultana said: “We are confident that the European Commission (EC) and the European Court of Justice will put an end to this trapping derogation once and for all. Apart from it being an embarrassment to science, the trapping of finches which are protected across Europe goes against what was agreed in Malta’s Accession Treaty to the European Union (EU), along with going against the European Birds Directive and against the landmark 2018 ECJ judgement that had found Malta guilty of infringing European law when it allowed finch trapping to reopen” External link

MaltaIndipendent Monday, March 4, 2024 at 10:21:00 AM Central European Standard Time

John McCormack said: “It’s just cultural memory: They spend all day feeding on the seeds, berries, and flowers of the surrounding tropical treescape,” External link

todayheadline Sunday, March 3, 2024 at 2:48:00 PM Central European Standard Time

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