Media Statements

Press Release 3 August 2009 The DCC Board has just approved another application (PA7810/06) irregularly in a sensitive Category 1 ODZ rural settlement, this time in the eco-island (sic) of Gozo. Following so soon upon the Bahrija debacle, nine NGOs comprising Ramblers’ Association of Malta, Nature Trust, Flimkien ghal Ambjent Ahjar, Friends of the Earth, BirdLife Malta, Din l-Art Helwa, GAIA,...

Press Release – 22 July 2009 Din l-Art Helwa, Birdlife Malta, Nature Trust (Malta) Six caravans that were moved into the Foresta 2000 afforestation site on early this month have now left the protected area, Din l-Art Helwa, Nature Trust (Malta) and BirdLife Malta announced today. The caravans were part of a larger group that were evicted from an area adjacent to the...

DLH Press Release – 14 July 2009 Din l-Art Helwa welcomes the long-awaited proposals for the reform of the Malta Environment and Planning Authority saying that the latest reform document contains many valid improvements. However the Organisation is extremely concerned about the recommendation to move the responsibility for planning policy away from Mepa, and to centralise planning in the Office of the...

Press Release 7 July 2009 Din l-art Helwa, BirdLife Malta and Nature Trust Malta today expressed their outrage at the re-location of evicted caravans in Mellieha to the Foresta 2000 protected site over the last weekend. The NGOs also revealed that a number of trees were cut down by the contractor brought in by the Mellieha Local Council, who facilitated the moving...

Din l-Art Helwa Press Release 28 June 2009Following the presentation of the new designs for Valletta’s Freedom Square, City Gate and the Opera House site, Din l-Art Helwa supports the concept put forward by Italian architect, Renzo Piano for these three sensitive areas so critical to the regeneration of the city. ‘With the entrance to Valletta still in a deplorable state...

Press Release 28 June 2009 The environmental NGOs BirdLife Malta, Din l-Art Ħelwa, Flimkien Għal Ambjent Aħjar, Friends of the Earth Malta, Gaia Foundation, Nature Trust Malta and the Ramblers Association today slammed the Siggiewi Mayor Perit Musumeci for his request for the police to investigate FAA Coordinator Astrid Vella. The NGOs stated that the authorities should investigate the notorious planning applications...

Din l-Art Helwa Press Release – 25 June 2009 Din l-Art Helwa once again urgently stresses the need for good governance atthe Malta Environment and Planning Authority. There continue to be far too many applications which have been approved against Mepa’s own policies and good practice, as recently with the scandalous permit for the construction of a new building in a...

DLH Press Release 13 June 2009 Din l-Art Helwa deplores the fact that the list of unacceptable planning applications and decisions continues to grow every day, and yet the government is still lagging behind with its promise to reform the Malta Environment and Planning Authority. Public outcry on the state of the environment features daily in the media, channelled through recent issues...

Press Release 26 May 2009 – Din l-Art Helwa and Nature Trust (Malta) The NGOs Nature Trust (Malta) and Din l-Art Helwa are very concerned about information being circulated with regards to a political event to be held at Mistra on 30 May 2009. The two NGOs stress that Mistra is today a Natura 2000 site and so it deserves all...