The nests of waterfowl
Also this year we witness the dismayed massacre perpetrated by the bodies responsible for the maintenance of the embankments and banks of the state-owned watercourses. Millions of waterfowl which nest along the banks of the water courses see their nests destroyed and killed themselves, with their bodies mangled by the operating machines used for mowing the grass and the reeds.
ACR requests
The Associazione per la Cultura Rurale does not contest the bodies in charge, starting with the reclamation consortia, for carrying out the annual maintenance operations on the watercourses, considering them indispensable, but believes that these works can be postponed by a few weeks.
Maintenance interventions
This should allow the wildlife that nests along the water courses to be able to complete their broods and bring them to safety before the arrival of the mechanical means used for maintenance interventions (honorable Sergio Berlato Italian Member of the European Parliament National President of the Association for Rural Culture).