As a consequence of a "vexatious" Green Political Party, BirdLife Malta, other Maltese entities and personalities’ extremism and personal political agendas, backed-up by three media houses, the spring hunting referendum cost the Maltese tax-payer €6,000,000, the hunters' federation said. 

As soon as the referendum result was announced on 12 April 2015, officials of the Federation for Hunting and Conservation – Malta (FKNK), who led and solely financed the pro-hunting Campaign, immediately pronounced that no-one and no other entity should ever be exposed to what the Maltese and Gozitan hunters and the FKNK have had to undergo.  Therefore, since then, the FKNK has embarked on, and are still in the process of a task, to ensure that the rights, the interests and the privileges of any minority group are never again threatened by a similar abuse of the Act.

The referendum campaign cost the FKNK around €160,000, which sum, the FKNK had managed to save over the years thanks to the generosity of its members and the FKNK’s wise leadership.  This amount does not reflect the endless voluntary hours undertaken by hundreds of FKNK members throughout the Campaign, the federation said.