Protected Storks shot over Malta

A report published this week (26 June) on Agence France Presse suggests that protected storks were recently shot and killed over Malta. The report indicates that the Storks reached Malta by mistake:

The migration of the stork goes from Europe, across the Balkans, through Israel and then south and west across Africa, an extraordinary 12,000-mile journey that ends in a remote central African republic. This makes it all the stranger that storks flew over Malta last week, were hunters shot and killed several of this specimen who is rare and protected. It is estimated that Poland is home to roughly 44,000 pairs, a quarter of the continent's population, of white storks. They spend summer there and winter in Africa - which, again, seems to suggest that the eight storks that had been spotted in Malta had in fact got here by mistake.

Every fourth stork comes from Poland


"Malta has no vested rights for spring hunting" - EU - MaltaMedia