"Enough with the killing of wild boar, fox, corvids, pigeons and nutria." To say it are the environmental and animal welfare associations of the Marche. Enpa, Grig, Lac, Lav, Lipu, Lupus in Fabula, Pro Natura and Wwf they sent a letter to the Region, to the councilor for hunting Mirko Carloni, after the letter, which goes in the opposite direction, written by the hunting associations to urge him to implement the Control Plans of those species, for the purpose of avoid damage to agriculture. The environmental and animal welfare associations in the letter ask the councilor Carloni to abide by the "Law 157/92, which provides, as a priority, the implementation of ecological and preventive methods which, if applied, would have long since solved most of the problems for farmers.
Without resorting to killing, however, always carried out outside the scope of the allowed by national legislation, or not by the public figures in charge, such as the Provincial Police, but by private subjects, such as hunters "reads the note sent to the councilor. In support of their thesis, animal rights activists and environmentalists point out the "seven sentences of the Constitutional Court, which established that "private" subjects, who then systematically turn out to be hunters, cannot be involved in wildlife "control" operations. It is therefore illegitimate to make use of teams of hunters as "assistants" of the public hunting surveillance bodies, because the control of wild species (in periods and areas where hunting is prohibited) rests exclusively with the agents of the provincial police ». "The Territorial Areas of Hunting are already organizing courses to quickly enable all hunters to" select-controllers ", a qualification that instead would require a lot of time and above all precise psychophysical requirements, which certainly not all hunters possess, especially those older.
All this to allow hunters, especially those who participate in wild boar hunts, to hunt all year round "he says. Daniel Baldini, delegate of Lac, League for the Abolition of Hunting. According to the associations, that of damage to agriculture "is a pretext" and in "over twenty years of wildlife" controls ", the old culling policy has proved to be totally unsuccessful". And "the most striking example - they explain - is given by the hunting of wild boar in hunt, which determines the deconstruction of the herds, the increase in the prolificacy of females and the dispersion of young wild boars even in urban areas". They also point out that "the systematic use of hunters, who then derive large profits from the sale of the carcasses of wild boars killed during the hunt, has generated a large clandestine trade in game meat, and has created a huge conflict of interest, because it is clear that the "beltlai" will never allow the wild boars to decrease in number or even to be eradicated, being for them a prey of significant economic interest "(Centro pagina.it).