The `joys` of trapping

Abstract

When Parliamentary Secretary for Animal Rights Roderick Galdes, who loses no opportunity to lash out at Birdlife for ‘exaggerating’ their claims about abuses by hunters and trappers, boldly asserted that he had ‘found a crack’ in existing EU law such that Maltese trappers would once again man their outposts this autumn, little did he anticipate the repercussions such a rash decision would have on Malta’s natural environment and beyond.