“We have families and loved ones and we won’t put our lives at risk due to a podcast that frankly doesn’t even make us money.”

“At this point in time, the fairest solution was to delete all the clips as though nothing ever happened. Obviously the FKNK follow-up has been cancelled too because we don’t need more hassle and trouble.”

“It’s a clean slate, and from here on out we’ll focus only on the issues we always focused on – paranormal activity, ufology, spirituality, mysteries, the occult and secrets.”

“Those who don’t like this decision can open their own podcasts and speak about what they please.”

Sayan made it clear that the intimidation didn’t come from FKNK, and had words of praise for Micallef who agreed to come on the podcast even though he’s aware he (Sayan) doesn’t agree with hunting.

BirdLife Malta CEO Mark Sultana expressed solidarity with Syaan.

“Just because he gave BirdLifeMalta space on his podcast, a substantial number of hunters verbally attacked him on social media and even went to his workplace to get some sort of satisfaction.”

“We are used to this. As soon as someone speaks out in favour of birds, hunters start attacking them at the lowest possible level. This is unacceptable and should be condemned by everyone with a sense of civic responsibility.”