Joseph LaRussa, Chairman of the Regional Federcaccia of Sicily, has published a note for some clarifications on a recent news story. The hunting association reported the discovery of a female Egyptian vulture died near Mazara del Vallo. FIDC Sicily has therefore distanced itself from what has been defined an act of crude barbarism, condemning the act committed by a poacher.
Here is the text of the press release: "This unspeakable gesture arouses the deepest indignation and the strongest condemnation in our Federation and of anyone, and it is the vast majority, who practice hunting honestly and in compliance with the laws and, at the same time , it thwarts all the efforts made continuously to redevelop the image of hunting in society. I hope that the person responsible will be identified and placed before his responsibilities and I guarantee the investigators maximum collaboration from us and our subscribers. Even if this will not be sufficient to remedy an execrable, reckless and useless gesture, it would in any case constitute a response due to civil society and even before to the great majority of respectful and aware hunters, who in these hours they are like me expressing their indignation.
However and for this very reason I cannot accept, even though I understand the bitterness that generated them, neither as a citizen nor as a hunter that our Region is defined, as literally, we read "a sort of gigantic" black hole "in which they are swallowed every year countless birds due to a intense and widespread poaching". The commitment of the Federation that I represent has always been high, concrete and convinced to educate and sensitize all hunters to respect for fauna, territory and the environment and to a conscious, sustainable and law-abiding practice. The response of the hunting world has always gone in this sense. It is not tolerable that the reckless gestures of a few individuals who I do not hesitate to define criminals, throw mud on an entire category of unblemished citizens ”.