CABS Video | Malta’s worst poacher found guilty – again!

Описание: The Court in Valletta have just delivered the sentencing today in the case against a poacher who was caught with an enormous illegal collection of live protected birds on 20 September 2022. On this day, the police were responding to a report from the Committee Against Bird Slaughter (CABS), who informed the authorities about an illegal bird trapping site in Għaxaq. When police inspected the site, they found the accused, an active clap-net and various aviaries containing 137 live protected birds, including 16 Green Sandpipers, 16 Common Sandpipers, 16 Wood Sandpipers, 13 Little Ringed Plovers, 9 Little Stints, 5 Common Ringed Plovers, 3 Black Winged Stilt, 2 Temminck’s Stint, 1 Greenshank, 1 Red Throated Pipit, 1 Yellow Wagtail and more than 50 finches of different species. In view of the overwhelming evidence, the man admitted most of the charges.

In view of the overwhelming evidence the man admitted to most charges and was handed a one-year prison term suspended for 2 years and a fine of 1,000 Euros.

A few days after the raid, the birds were ringed and released back into the wild at Għadira, a protected wetland reserve managed by our partners at BirdLife Malta. The verdict also reflects the man is a repeat offender who previously spent time in jail for the illegal shooting of protected Mute Swans in St. Thomas Bay in January 2002. Back then, the accused and two of his cousins used a speedboat to chase the exhausted birds and killed seven of them. IN April 2017 and August 2019, he was also reported by CABS staff for hunting during closed season and for illegal trapping of protected waders.

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