All countries have a moral obligation to safeguard the wildlife thaht occurs on their land. Malta is one of these countries. It is entrusted with affording rest and safe passage to birds migrating over its territory. This sacred duty is daily disregarded as birds continue to rain down from the sky as lifeless lumps. Which is why MOS untiringly insists that...

THIS KILLING MUST STOP !!!!

The dark speck in the bright sunny sky grows bigger as it approaches. The tired honey buzzard heads for the wooded slopes of buskett, a welcome haven after a hundred kilometres of featureless and inhospitable sea. It skims the treeline, looking for a suitable pine.

The bird half folds its broad wings and rapidly loses height.

A barrage of gunshot shatters the silence, the scene and the bird. Hit squarely in the breast, the bird heaves and topples from the sky. It pelts down through the foliage, and comes to rest heavily on a stone.

The bird half spreads its broad wings and rapidly loses...life.

THIS KILLING MUST STOP !!!!