ACL, the Lombard Hunters Association talks about rings and live recall census, disaster announced.
When it comes to identification rings and a database for the census of decoy birds, you have to put your hands in your hair. A procedure that has created many inconveniences, the most serious is the abandonment by many hunters from practicing the hunting from stalking and to surrender everything.
What was presented to us by the Lombardy Region, as "not mandatory", concealed in the light of the facts a path full of difficulties. To suffer and to pay the consequences, all the hunters who held live calls for various reasons. The cumbersome procedures and the inadequacy of the rings adopted by the Lombardy Region have turned into a "via crucis" for those who wanted to continue a tradition of the territory rooted in the provinces of Brescia and Bergamo such as that of stalking. The Region has proved deaf and blind to our appeals and insensitive to our requests.
Not to mention the damage caused to the legs of birds, injuries and fractures produced by metal rings, in some cases even causing death. Unfortunately these days there are many hunters who are groping in the dark because they do not know when and how they will receive the rings from the Service. Hunting of the Province. They are those who had taken steps in a second phase to regularize the position of the respective warnings. The question concerning the updating of the database remains open and unsolved, even for new born subjects.
For ACL, this is unacceptable. For the record and for those who read us, our Association was the first to dissociate itself from these procedures while the 2 most representative Associations rushed to communicate to their members to fill in forms 1 and 2, thanks to their vouchers. relations with the officials of the “Pirellone”. The results are now there for all to see. For our part, the decision was taken to denounce those who took administrative and political responsibility for adopting this type of rings for animal abuse.
August 23th, 2014
Source: Lombard Hunters Association