Galdes does not exclude trapping for finches

The Spring Hunting season closed yesterday and Parliamentary Secretary for Animal Rights Roderick Galdes now has two tasks in his intray: the setting up of the Wildlife Crime Unit and obtaining a derogation for autumn trapping. He also told Times of Malta that a “technical loophole” has been found that would allow the Government to present proposals to the European Union to allow bird trapping in autumn. When asked if trapping would include finches, a sore point for ornithologists, he said: “That could be possible – but one has to see.” Full story in The Times of Malta.