Protected bird dinner: Michele Vittoria Brambilla take the case to parliament. The Honorable Lecco, founder of Italian League for the Defense of Animals and the Environment, has in fact deposited a question to the Minister of the Interior Luciana Lamorgese about the "illegal lunch" interrupted last Friday by the forest police at the headquarters of the mountain community of Val Trompia, in Gardone Val Trompia. On the plates there were 65 birds caught illegally, belonging to protected species, including a brambling and two frosoni (particularly protected). There were about twenty diners between executives and employees of the institution, gathered, apparently, in defiance also of the rules dictated by the need to counter the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The Honorable Lecco has in fact asked the Minister, through the question, if he does not consider it appropriate - "since it is a clear violation of the rules, operated by public employees, in an institutional seat - activate the competent territorial office of the government for the appropriate checks on the administration of the mountain community "and" what measures does the Minister of Ecological Transition to ensure the strengthening of controls against poaching, especially to the detriment of birds, and therefore compliance - in an obviously “difficult” territory such as Lombardy - with the regulations in force for the protection of wildlife ”.
“It is astonishing - observes the deputy - that a group of executives and public officials indulge in blatant violations of the rules, at the headquarters of their institution. It is not known whether the attitude to poaching or the feeling of total impunity generated by the position held is more deeply rooted. Certainly the animals pay the bill. Well two million birds they are killed illegally every year in Lombardy. It's time to stop this shame "(First Lecco).
I would like to know how the foresters did to distinguish the two frosoni and brambling (already cooked) from the other birds ???