Young activists of the Shout campaign against Spring hunting are campaigning in City Gate this morning, urging young people to vote in the April 11 referendum, and to vote No.

They urged young people not to be indifferent and to use the opportunity to ‘make Malta greener’.

“Other countries in the EU are making great efforts in conservation, including protection of Turtle Doves. Meanwhile, in Malta we are doing nothing to protect them. Even worse, we are delivering the final blow and soon there will be no chance to make up for these mistakes,” activist Bernice Saliba said.

On a similar vein, Steve Zammit Lupi expressed concern that the next generation might come to a stage where they had nothing to protect any more.

He showed a picture of the last ‘passenger pigeon’ which died in captivity in 1914, saying there were millions of these pigeons in the 19th century but they were hunted for sport and food, just like quail and turtle dove in today’s Malta.