Save the Countryside

19 Jun 2015

Moving out of the glasshouse

by Petra Caruana Dingli The government cannot hope to safeguard its environmental reputation just by pointing out the faults of others. If the Opposition, the Curia,NGOs, or now even the general public, say anything in favour of the environment, they are immediately shot down with a comparison to past misdeeds, or to their silence on comparable issues. People who live in glasshouses should...

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29 May 2015

Listen to us, by Martin Galea

This year the National Trust of England, Wales and Northern Ireland celebrates 50 years of Operation Neptune. Set up in 1965 as a reaction to the increasing development along the coastline, the launch was enthusiastically taken up and captured the imagination of people in Britain who were keen to save their beautiful heritage. Money was quickly collected and the government chipped...

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03 Apr 2015

Access by families to the Countryside: large majority against hunting on weekends and school holidays

Din l-Art Ħelwa’s ‘Save the Countryside’ survey (Part 2): Din l-Art Ħelwa’s ‘Save the Countryside’ campaign has conducted a survey of the Maltese population’s views on the Countryside in collaboration with MISCO International. Certain key results dealing with Hunting and Trapping were published last week. Other key results linked to Hunting and Trapping are the following: Importance of the Countryside for Maltese...

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09 Jan 2015

Interviews with Guido Bonett and Alfred E. Baldacchino – Save the Countryside campaign

ENVIRONMENTALISTS ARGUE WEAKNESS OF GOVERNMENTS ON ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES 22nd December 2014 – the Malta Independent Read the full article in the online edition here. “The environment is nothing but a buzzword for politicians on both sides, a buzzword used by them to sound nice and be popular”, Environment photographer Guido Bonett told The Malta Independent. “In my opinion, we...

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