Media Statements

DIN L-ART HELWAPRESS RELEASE FOLLOWING Annual General Meeting 27th February 2010 Dr Petra Bianchi, newly elected executive president of Din l-Art Helwa in her address to members at the Annual General Meeting of the heritage organisation held in Valletta on Saturday 27th February 2010, urged the authorities to protect the environment and its dwindling resources. “Our environment is in shambles” said Dr...

Press Release 30 January 2010 Eight Environmental NGOs today joined forces to counter the hunting lobby’s recent demand made to the Prime Minister to reopen spring hunting, warning Dr Lawrence Gonzi not to drag Malta into another case at the European Court of Justice. BirdLife Malta, Din l-Art Helwa, Friends of the Earth Malta, The Gaia Foundation, Ramblers, MOAM, FAA and Nature...

Din l-Art Helwa Press Release 16.01.2010 Din l-Art Helwa welcomes the announcement of the long-awaited measures to implement a reform of the Malta Environment and Planning Authority. Din l-Art Helwa agrees with the decision for development planning and environmental protection to be regulated under one authority. However it is vital that environmental protection is given far more weight in development planning than...

Din l-Art Helwa Press Release 14 January 2011 Din l-Art Helwa urges the government not to take any decisions on the future of the basement space under Casa Lanfreducci in Valletta until the necessary studies about its historical uses have been carried out, and the conclusions have been made public by the heritage authorities. If it is shown that this basement area...

Din l-Art Helwa Press Release 29th October 2009 The character of historic Balluta Square will be spoiled if the electric bus terminus proposed by the St Julian’s Local Council goes ahead (PA 02358/09), says Din l-Art Helwa. Apart from the bus station at the bottom of the hill, which would partly replace the existing public toilets, the proposal also includes a...

Press Release 12 October 2009 The environmental NGOs Nature Trust (Malta), Flimkien ghal Ambjent Ahjar, Light Pollution Awareness Group, Din l-Art Helwa, Friends of the Earth Malta and BirdLife Malta welcome the news that Parliamentary Secretary Dr Jason Azzopardi has successfully reclaimed the area between Fomm ir-Rih and Gnejna. This sizeable tract of relatively unspoiled land and coast is not only considered...

Press Release, 26 September 2009 The environmental NGOs Friends of the Earth Malta, Flimkien Ghal Ambjent Ahjar, Ramblers Association and Nature Trust (Malta), Birdlife Malta and Din l-Art Helwa have expressed their disappointment and concern as to how the Enforcement Unit within the MEPA Environment Directorate is being dismantled and officers in this unit were being distributed into other units within...

DLH Press Release 11 August 2009 With reference to the report in the Times today ‘Concerns on heritage status of Valletta’, Din l-Art Helwa points out that it had objected to the high rise building in the Tigne project when it was first...