The letter to the councilor
In Valle d'Aosta a “fox massacre” is underway. Legambiente reports it in a letter sent to the regional councilor for natural resources, Marco Carrel. “At the end of May 2024, during a meeting of the wildlife hunting council, a representative of the council – it says – reported that in an area of his municipality foxes overturn garbage bins in search of food. From a particular and local problem, the problem is posed as general, and the ruthless delegate proposes to give a prize to hunters who kill foxes, throughout the regional territory, recognizing them a note of merit, that is, a bonus, in the assignment of ungulate heads to be killed in the following hunting season.
Collection of foxes
The assembly responded that there are no limits on the collection of foxes and diverted the possible issue to the Regional Committee for Hunting Management, Councilor Carrel highlighted that no rewards will be included in the Hunting Calendar and the representative of the environmental associations expressed himself clearly against the hunting marketing message. The proposal was then re-presented, in the following weeks, within the Regional Committee for Hunting Management and, with a vote against again by the environmentalist representation, favorably accepted”.
The explicit request
"Now, late in the hunting season, dozens of carcasses of foxes killed and abandoned in the meadows and woods are being reported - adds Legambiente - so much so that the Committee has had to issue an internal circular inviting more civilized attitudes regarding the disposal or concealment of animals. If in the past in the Valley an average of 5 foxes were killed per year, it is now possible to hypothesize the massacre of hundreds of foxes. We therefore ask that the regional administration eliminate the bonus that the Committee for hunting management has self-assigned, intervening in this sense directly in the next hunting calendar".
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