Hunters complain over e-mail petition

The hunters’ federation has complained over an e-mail which it said is urging people to vote against spring hunting on a timesofmalta.com poll.

The e-mail which the federation described as “hate mail” and was reproduced in a press release, states: The Times Online has a poll regarding whether the Maltese Government should open the Spring hunting season. Please click on http://www.timesofmalta.com/ and vote to keep it closed if you would like to stop or reduce hunting in Malta. The Kaccaturi are activating all their members to vote to open the season and they are winning.

“Since yesterday, the gap has closed, so can you vote and possibly pass this email around to anyone you may know who is interested in getting our countryside back in spring and stopping this illegal slaughter of migratory birds.”

This, the federation said, was how some 'patriotic' Maltese citizens had been gullibly led to believe that their supposedly fellow Maltese, rural Maltese land owners, should be thrown-off their property.

“The Federation for Hunting & Conservation - Malta (FKNK) yet again warns BirdLife (Malta) & Co. that no Turk, no-one hailing from Bermuda, none other coming from any country around the world, and no Maltese has any right to claim any sort of possession, nor interfere or molest with the liberty that Maltese rural land owners have the right to enjoy on their private Maltese properties.”