The road to hell: let’s burn more fossile fuels if we mismanage our forests....

⚠️In a few weeks, the European Commission will present a package, called environmental omnibus, that could roll back laws protecting our air, water, and wildlife... all to please powerful polluters. It's time for the Commission to listen to people, not polluters. #HandsOffNature

The @ec.europa.eu confirms it has not endorsed Malta’s so-called research derogation for finch trapping, reinforcing that the previous ruling still stands. 👉 Read more: birdlifemalta.org/2025/11/euro...

🚨 Across Europe, farmland that once echoed with birdsong and buzzing life is falling silent, poisoned by the overuse of harmful pesticides. These chemicals contaminate soil and water, kill the insects that birds depend on, and weaken the ecosystems that make farming possible.

Despite 2 ECJ rulings confirming finch trapping is illegal Malta again allows the capture of finches, Golden Plovers & Song Thrushes under the guise of “research”. We launched a tool showing authorised trapping sites. Use it to check locations & report illegal activity www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/v...

ADPD - The Green Party has raised concerns over recent legal changes that could undermine #Malta’s natural heritage and biodiversity. The statement mentions amendments in bird ringing rules removing the link to the #EURING network, represented locally by BirdLife Malta. adpd.mt/the-maltese-...

We strongly condemn the Maltese Prime Minister’s decision to weaken the laws regulating scientific bird ringing in a clear step to pacify the hunters’ lobby & to disguise illegal bird trapping as a scientific ringing project @ec.europa.eu @birdlifeeurope.bsky.social birdlifemalta.org/2025/10/bird...

Environmentalists protest in Malta: The government wants "traditional hobbies" (including spring hunting) in the constitution, not environmental protection.

Water hemmoraging from Natura2000 peatbog in Belgium's Haute fagne. Deep drainge, bad for biodiversity, floods, summer droughts. For the sake of uneconomic spruce plantations. A priority for RestoreNature

This crazy project isn't a local issue. The Messina Strait is one of the key chokepoints for bird migration between Europe and Africa: www.lastampa.it/la-zampa/202... If you care about receiving your beloved birds every year as usual, help us. Raise awareness among your associations and the press.

Brilliant visuals making the latest bird migration science accessible. The birds have important messages for us about our rapidly changing home. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

45 major meat & dairy corporations generated more than 1bn tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions eq Largest 5 emitters analysed - JBS, Marfrig, Tyson, Minerva, and Cargill - together produced 480 mn tonnes, surpassing emissions reported for Chevron, Shell, or BP www.businessgreen.com/news/4520605...

🚨The European Parliament just rejected the #Forest Monitoring Law 🚨 The proposal was a much-needed piece of legislation, essential to better understanding the state of Europe’s forests and how best to tackle their current breakdown. Our reaction 👇

45 meat and dairy giants emit more methane than EU and UK combined, study finds euobserver.com/green-econom...

Irelan asks for "no additional heating approach" to farming. IE if emissions don’t increase, they can be "climate neutral" Try that with anything else. Ecuador can have no crime problem if homicide numbers stay stable. Ukrain can be at peace if bombing rate stays the same. A better world beacons

Since 1970, global wildlife populations have plunged by an average of 73%, and more than a quarter of our planet’s species now face extinction. Nature needs advocates. Political will is needed. Action is essential. So is recognition that this work is not optional—it is foundational.

Tens of millions of essentially factory farmed poultry are dumped into the countryside each year. They boost the population of mesopredators like foxes, reducing ground nesting bird populations. They are an obvious avian flue hazard. They eat declining reptiles. Turn out they're also a health hazard

With their own bodies contaminated, would our politicians still vote to weaken pollution control rules?

Small gestures, waiting for the outlawing

Even if the world stopped burning coal, oil and gas tomorrow, what we eat would still be enough to heat the climate beyond 1.5 degrees Celsius, warns the EAT-Lancet Commission.

Outposts of Progress Colonial Aquaculture: How Our Farms Are Impoverishing Africa www.editorialedomani.it/ambiente/acq...

The good news: we can pretty much stop the biodiversity crisis and give a massive contribution to dealing with climate change if we moved to a healthy diet. And it would save millions of human lives beside that. How can policies to help it be contentious? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A new assessment of land-use changes in Europe, accounting for small-scale changes, indicates a 50% higher loss of green spaces. euobserver.com/green-econom...

"La primera comunidad autónoma donde la caza del animal se vuelve a convertir en deporte" elpais.com/clima-y-medi...

Keeping a small area of grass unmown throughout autumn & winter can benefit wildlife. Long grass offers protection to all sorts of creatures, from beetles & bumblebees to frogs & toads. More ways to create a wild autumn garden: littlegreenspace.org.uk/features/wild-…#rewildingn#biodiversityty

The tree you climbed as a child. Gone. The Swifts over your town. Gone. The air you breathe. Polluted. The river. Unsafe. This is the reality of deregulation. Cutting protections would mean disaster for nature & our economy. Our CEO sets out why: rspb.org.uk/whats-happen... 👈

Very useful reading. The report "found only two of 22 specific policy targets for 2030 – greenhouse gas emissions and ozone-depleting substances – were “largely on track”. Nine were “largely not on track”, with the rest showing a mixed trend". www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"The latest ISPRA report on land consumption in Italy (dec. 2024) certifies that, over the previous year, nearly nine million square meters of land theoretically protected by the Galasso Law became artificial". Well informed article: gruppodinterventogiuridicoweb.com/2025/09/27/c...

The dark secret behind the "terroire" propaganda. The standard farm lobby argument for a free hand to destory nature and health is "food security". Wine calls the bluff on it.

The conundrum we find everywhere. Far too little for for the insects, but far too much for the farm lobby (the EU tried to go for 7%, paid for with subsidies, but has now pretty much abolished it, as did the UK as soon as it Brexited).

The decline as we know is worldwide, see for example: www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...

Hydropower infrastructure may bring economic and geopolitical advantages, but India risks undermining the mountains that protect its people, wildlife and borders.

Despite the promises of governments of all colors, and relentless propaganda from the intensive farm lobby, the collapse of nature continues steadily. The collapse of farmland birds is just a reflection of a self destructive farming system. We can change, if we wanted.

EU chemical firms plan to export rising quantities of ‘toxic’ pesticides, documents show Bloc urged to end ‘unethical double standard’ of allowing sale of products deemed too dangerous for EU farmsEuropean chemical corporations have issued plans to export increasing quantities of “toxic”...

Another commendable contribution from Maltese ornithologists to the knowledge and protection of this endangered bird (see lately www.birdlife.org/news/2025/04..., threatened by our incivility,

On "sustainable hunting" and hunting lobbies, nice video. English translation below for non-Maltese speakers.

Your daily war on nature: -Sweden leading a coalition asking for mass shooting of cormorants. Easier to blame the black birds than address the agricultural run off and overfishing killing the Baltic's fish -Finland asks to kill the nature restoration law (on behalf of the clear cut forestry lobby).

The farm lobby goes in for a kill, as the EC opens a consultation of "agriculture simplification". First step towards an "omnibus" law that will make it (even) easier to use #pesticides. Citizens have until October 14 to tell the EC to stop messing with their food.

Somehow, our leaders still think #climateaction and #RestoreNature are expensive. They should take a close look at the alternative. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Another migrant put at risk by man-made obstacles: www.bto.org/our-work/sci...

“The bird (Numenius tenuirostris) was caught in a pincer movement: extensive habitat destruction and relentless persecution on migration… The birds were shot on migration and sold in markets in Italy and elsewhere. Now they are gone”. See also: searchforlostbirds.org/birds/1621

According to a recent IUCN report, 19% of European species are threatened with extinction, with higher risks for plants (27%) and invertebrates (24%) compared to vertebrates (18%): journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... In this situation, decreasing environmental protection is shameful.

Did you know a group of vultures in flight is called a “kettle?”🦅 Today is #InternationalVultureAwarenessDay! Vultures have suffered severe population declines from the poisoning of carcasses. We need ongoing efforts to conserve the 23 vulture species. Read more👉 www.birdlife.org/protecting-t...

The Strait of Messina is one of the key chokepoints for bird migration between Europe and Africa. Every spring millions of individuals of many species are counted. All of this is put at risk by the planned bridge over the Strait of Messina. See this latest report: www.lastampa.it/la-zampa/202...

It's sad that so much time and effort should go into stopping dumb projects that should have been buried decades ago. But here we are. The fight goes on.

“This story shows Malta’s strategic importance in protecting endangered species, and how international and local collaboration can make the difference". Malta, and Sicily too. Remember, the next threat to migratory birds is the planned bridge over the Strait of Messina.

European countries trying to stop the recovery of their wolf population should be ashamed. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Mediterranean Sea reached record temperatures triggering rapid topicalization.In an AFP article our very own Gil Rilov said "..now its getting warmer,and since 2015 the canal has been deepened and widened more and more species move in every year" Act now to protect biodiversity More in Full article: