Editorial

Abstract

With this third issue Il-Merill comes to the end of its first year of life and it has gained quite a number of new readers. If present subscribers were each to take a New Year resolution to win one more adherent, the Malta Ornithological Society would be in a stronger financial position and would be all the more able to pursue one of its main aims - that of bird conservation. It is remarkable how many letters have been written to the Press in recent months showing that there is a growing feeling among the Maltese that something should be done, not only by people who are interested in preservation but also by the Government and the Police who are able to enforce the present existing laws on trapping and shooting.