What is the Ornis Committee?
The Ornis Committee decides on issues such as the study on trapping, licensing and registration. It also co-ordinate the collation of the carnet de chasse (which is a note of the birds caught by each hunter) and it introduces any necessary controls on hunting and trapping in case of a serious decline in certain species. The Committee decided on new species which may be hunted. The committee includes representatives of hunting and environmental organisations.

The Committee is currently composed as follows:

Mr Louis Cilia
(Chairperson)

Appointed Committee Members:

Mark Gauci
Environment Protection Directorate

Mr Joe Perici Calascione
FKNK

Mr. Joseph Buttigieg
FKNK

Mr Joe Mangion
Birdlife Malta

Mr Norman Chetcuti
Birdlife Malta

Ms Carmen DeBattista
Secretary