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NGOs’ Stand on Electoral Manifestos
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NGOs’ Stand on Electoral Manifestos

Friends of the Earth Malta joined six other environmental groups to express serious concern at the way environmental issues were being used as vote-catching pawns. Environment NGOs Din L-Art Helwa, Flimkien ghal Ambjent Ahjar, Nature Trust (Malta), Ramblers Association and Friends of the Earth Malta, Birdlife Malta, Greenhouse and Gaia Foundation express their serious concern...

NGOs condemn threats received by AD chairperson
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NGOs condemn threats received by AD chairperson

The Ramblers’ Association of Malta, Flimkien ghal Ambjent Ahjar, Friends of the Earth Malta and Nature Trust (Malta) are deeply concerned at the news of the threatening letter received by Alternattiva Demokratika leader Dr Michael Briguglio in connection with his party’s strong stand over the boathouses at Armier and elsewhere. The four environmental organisations repeat...

Rio+20 – of International fluff and local double standards
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Rio+20 – of International fluff and local double standards

The NGOs Friends of the Earth Malta, Flimkien ghal Ambjent Ahjar (FAA), NatureTrust (Malta), Malta Organic Agriculture Movement (MOAM) and Ramblers Association of Malta share Environment Minister De Marco’s conclusion that the Rio+20 Summit lacked ambition. The Rio+20 declaration reaffirms the ‘Rio Principles’ first agreed at the 1992 Earth Summit but does not go any...

Call on Mepa to refuse new Hondoq application
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Call on Mepa to refuse new Hondoq application

In the face of an overwhelming outcry against the proposed Hondoq project to develop a large hotel and hundreds of real estate units around a yacht marina, the developers of Qala Creek have decided to drop the idea of the marina at Hondoq Bay, limiting themselves to a ‘swimming lagoon’. Friends of the Earth Malta...

Tree Planting Event on World Refugee Day
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Tree Planting Event on World Refugee Day

Trees planted by Libyan refugees and representatives from UNHCR and Friends of the Earth Malta As part of a programme of events to mark World Refugee Day 2011, Friends of the Earth Malta organised a tree planting event in conjunction with UNHCR Malta at the GAIA Foundation in Ghajn Tuffieha. Refugees currently residing in Malta,...

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