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Il Mi​ż​ieb, Mellie​ħ​a (MT​)​, 05​/​21​/​2021, 11​.​49 am

by KURT BUTTIGIEG

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This is a recording of Il-Miżieb, Mellieħa, one of Malta’s few woodlands in a place with seven times less forest coverage than any other European country.

It was my temporary home for a few hours as I made my way around every part of it. I took a short nap next to a ‘dura’, the makeshift hunting posts seen everywhere in Malta - often with huge, threatening ‘Keep Out’s or ‘R.T.O.’s (reserved to owner) scrawled in red paint.

Every sound jostles for place: the lament of a siren carries itself above the hill, birds migrate on their way to slaughter, a mosquito investigates my equipment, the wind sweeps through the trees. Engines of all types are omnipresent.

Il-Miżieb has been recently gifted to the hunting lobby through a secret deal by the government. Every vote counts. The public has been all but forced out in a place with critically few open spaces.

That day hunting season was closed. No threats were thrown my way by those who feel entitled to land which is ‘theirs’ through the expediency of democracy-by-corruption. I was free to explore and breathe at my pace.



Recorder : Zoom H2n

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released July 19, 2021

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