Malta Pages - Help Us Now
You Can Help us to Help Birds of Prey in Malta Now!
Justin Vassallo (leader Birdlife Malta Youth Group) and Barbara Handley (Hawk and Owl Trust) transporting a shot Honey Buzzard to the vet.
For more about this amazing group have a look at their website:www.bateleurs.org.za
At the vet - Justin holds up some of the other casualties - kestrels are common victims.
Bateleurs volunteer pilots want to airlift injured raptors out of Malta
Joseph Mangion and his team (Birdlife Malta) inspect the injuries inflicted to a young European Hobby on its first trip to Africa.
Injured birds of prey have little chance of recovery at the moment - please help us put a system in place that could nurse this Hobby back to health and help it on its travels.
Injured birds of prey have little chance of recovery at the moment -
Please make a donation online to help us build momentum for this important campaign.
The Hawk and Owl Trust is approaching major international conservation agencies to fund this programme in the long term but these funds take time to flow. We have a pressing need now to help volunteers in both Italy and Malta nurse, rehabilitate and release injured birds of prey back to the wild. They are doing a brave job in the face of the hunters and they would really benefit from your support.
We guarantee that any funds donated to the Italy or Malta programmes will go directly to those projects, but we would also greatly appreciate any donations to the general fund to help cover our administration costs and nurture our long term programme for the Central Mediterranean.
In Italy, these donations will cover fuel costs for the rehabbers, food
and housing for injured birds and will help develop the exciting Fortino project.
In Malta, donations will be directed towards developing veterinary and rehabilitation infrastructure. There is no vet specialising on birds of prey in Malta but Ryda Kovich has been helping Birldife Malta and is extremely keen to learn. When we visited Ryda last September, she had three Honey Buzzards, two Hobbies and two Common Kestrels in just two rooms at her surgery.
We are supplying Ryda and Ian Balsan with the necessary literature and would like to send our 'own' raptor vet, Dick Best, out to Malta to help train those involved in the specialist care that injured birds of prey desperately need. Once 'mended' birds of prey may choose not to be released on Malta to fly the gauntlet of those guns all over again! We are investigating the possibility of flying these birds out to well-equipped rehabilitation centres in Europe or South Africa (depending on which way the birds were heading!)
A submission has been made to the Bateleurs - an intrepid group of dedicated conservationists and pilots in Africa who donate their time and expertise to helping wildlife and the environment.
The Hawk and Owl Trust is approaching major international conservation agencies to fund this programme in the long term but these funds take time to flow. We have a pressing need now to help volunteers in both Italy and Malta nurse, rehabilitate and release injured birds of prey back to the wild. They are doing a brave job in the face of the hunters and they would really benefit from your support.
We guarantee that any funds donated to the Italy or Malta programmes will go directly to those projects, but we would also greatly appreciate any donations to the general fund to help cover our administration costs and nurture our long term programme for the Central Mediterranean.
In Italy, these donations will cover fuel costs for the rehabbers, food
and housing for injured birds and will help develop the exciting Fortino project.
In Malta, donations will be directed towards developing veterinary and rehabilitation infrastructure. There is no vet specialising on birds of prey in Malta but Ryda Kovich has been helping Birldife Malta and is extremely keen to learn. When we visited Ryda last September, she had three Honey Buzzards, two Hobbies and two Common Kestrels in just two rooms at her surgery.
We are supplying Ryda and Ian Balsan with the necessary literature and would like to send our 'own' raptor vet, Dick Best, out to Malta to help train those involved in the specialist care that injured birds of prey desperately need. Once 'mended' birds of prey may choose not to be released on Malta to fly the gauntlet of those guns all over again! We are investigating the possibility of flying these birds out to well-
A submission has been made to the Bateleurs -
