Chris Packham on Malta

Every evening, at 9pm, another video is posted about the Malta Massacre on Migration.  The three so far have been very moving.  What will tonight’s video reveal? I wonder what our hunters think of the situation in Malta? They seem quite quiet on the subject…  

Support Malta’s conservationists

Malta is a member of the EU but seems to think that it can break and bend the rules of the club by allowing spring hunting of migrant birds that pass across this Mediterranean island on their way north. Birds of all sorts are killed at this time of year.  The other evening a party…

Where are we in the league table?

How many birds are killed by ‘hunters’ in each km2 of the UK each year, and how does that compare with other European countries? Have you ever wondered? Neither had I until a reader of this blog put me in touch with the data with which one can work it out. Well it depends what…