Dear Director, we have carefully read the article that appeared on the website de The voice of Rovigo entitled “More poaching in the Delta with banned calls. A plague ". We are pleased that - contrary to what usually happens - the right term has been used to indicate who exercises the removal of animal species without any respect for the law, just as we share that poaching is a plague against which all hunters - who are not distinguished from these marauders only because they respect the rules, times and species provided for by law, but precisely for a different way of understanding nature and the wild - are unanimously united in prevention and condemnation.
Having said that, which has universal and always valid value, we express some doubts that what is reported in the article, or that last Sunday on "Red" day and therefore in force the ban on leaving one's home except for a very narrow range of reasons, someone was hunting in the Boccasette area, at the mouth of the Po di Maistra, is true. In the photos viewed, in fact, it does not seem to us that someone was portrayed in an attitude of hunting, when shooting or using calls, whether prohibited or permitted.
We're sure it was poachers or not some professional fishermen, therefore authorized to be in that place or, at worst, someone who limited himself to going out into the lagoon, thus certainly breaking the Christmas Decree, but of course no other law and least of all committed to poaching? We would not want that once again we wanted to draw attention and point the finger at the Delta area, which has long been the focus of attention of the parties who have every interest in making it appear as a point of illegality and a threat to biodiversity. . In fact, we cannot agree with the statements made by the exponent of WWF Massimo Benà, when he declares that the checks in the Bassopolesine always end with irregularities. Indeed, the infringements recorded in the Delta area they are even lower than the average found in the rest of the territory. And this in the face of a very high vigilance pressure, both from the provincial police and from the agents of the various environmentalist and anti-hunt groups, often conducted in decidedly rude ways, not to say openly hostile, towards the controlled, aimed precisely at looking for incorrect behavior.
As for the rules, they are well detailed. If no infringements are found, it is not because the norm is missing, but because these are respected by hunters. And speaking of respect for the rules: who denounced the alleged illegality situation that occurred on Sunday morning, was authorized to be there or, as often happens, do you believe that the end justifies the means?