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Garden Helper (P/t) Ref:1801
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Garden Helper (P/t) Ref:1801

*This position has now been filled – please click here to check out our other opportunities Villa Chelsea, the site of our Nature Therapy project, is a a therapeutic community managed by the Richmond Foundation that provides a residential and day community-based programme and respite care for persons with mental health problems, and supports clients...

Bee Sustainable – School of Sustainability Activist Camp
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Bee Sustainable – School of Sustainability Activist Camp

Due to the effects of intensive agricultural practices and pesticide use, climate change, the decrease in rainfall, hotter summers and droughts, the bee population has been even more strained these past few years, with honey-bee keepers in Malta loosing up to half of their colonies. Friends of the Earth Malta has already been organising a...

What’s in season – Potato
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What’s in season – Potato

Every month we feature a fruit or vegetable that is in season, along with a fun fact or recipe idea. Ah, the humble potato. If you go out for a stroll in the countryside you’ll surely see fields and fields of them growing, and the first harvests being brought in. Although admittedly there are more...

A Green Take On Integration
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A Green Take On Integration

The benefits of community gardening for migrant and local communities Last month the Ministry for European Affairs and Equality released the much awaited Migrant Interaction Strategy and Action Plan, which will enable all migrants, including EU citizens (though some would rather be referred to as expats) to voluntarily submit a request to be integrated. The...

Oranges
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What’s in season – December

Every month we feature a fruit or vegetable that is in season, along with a fun fact or recipe idea. It’s almost winter, and almost Christmas, and next to all the merriment that brings, it also means the start of the local citrus season! Savor the delicious taste of local oranges, lemons and tangerines, and...

EU fails to seize opportunity to end glyphosate
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EU fails to seize opportunity to end glyphosate

The European Commission and EU Member States have failed to halt the use of the herbicide glyphosate by supporting a new five-year licence for the controversial weed-killer, missing the opportunity to ban it completely and make European food and farming safer and more sustainable. Glyphosate damages nature, probably causes cancer, and props up an industrial...

Reaction to Prime Minister’s Zonqor Campus Comments
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Reaction to Prime Minister’s Zonqor Campus Comments

Friends of the Earth Malta together with the undersigned coalition of eNGOs notes the prudent statements made by the Prime Minister to the effect that the American University of Malta will not be building its Zonqor Campus until the Bormla Campus is operating at full capacity. The eNGOs are however concerned that since Sadeen Education...

Glyphosate map
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Glyphosate renewal gridlock

Malta votes against renewal of harmful weed killer Reacting to the failure of the European Commission and EU Member States to agree on the renewal of the herbicide glyphosate, Martin Galea De Giovanni, Director of Friends of the Earth Malta said that “this is yet another positive development following years of campaigning since tests carried...

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