Enalcaccia: Po Delta, animal rights activists responsible for the imbalance between species and the "death" of the Mezzano; Frasson "the environmentalists must also pay".
"It would be time to make environmentalists pay a tax to" manage "the environment." After the alarm about the state of the wildlife in the protected area of Mezzano, with the accusations addressed to environmental associations and "incapable" administrators, the provincial president of Enalcaccia, Sergio Frasson, launches a new provocation, asking for " tax environmental associations and be able to open indiscriminate hunting of cormorants and herring gulls, without time limits, on the model of what is already arranged in Northern European countries such as Sweden and Norway ". According to Enalcaccia's number one, the latter would be the solution to deal with what the hunters themselves have renamed the "death" of the Mezzano and the Comacchio Valleys: an imbalance between predatory and wild species caused by an "increase out of proportion to invasive fauna: the family of corvids, birds of prey, foxes and herons, which have become the real masters ". "In the path of the collapse of fauna it has always been very easy to blame the agricultural and hunting world, while environmentalists advertised interventions for the recovery and care of birds of prey in difficulty to free them in the middle area - says Frasson - All this, however, has altered the relationship between species. This is also true in the Comacchio valleys, where the presence of herring gulls and cormorants has caused the destruction of the fish fauna, bringing fishing to its knees ”. And it is for this reason that from Enalcaccia they return to point the finger at the environmental associations, held responsible for the alteration of the species and accusing them of “enjoying subsidies”: “We hunters pay around 400 euros in taxes every year. Despite the damage caused, however, environmental associations always risk closure if they do not obtain subsidies. The time has come for them too to be taxed ”.
For the moment, environmental associations prefer not to comment. But that there is a problem of species imbalances, the director of the Po Delta Park, Lucilla Previati, also admits. “We need to intervene in a secular way - he says - with detailed control plans that also include the forms of agriculture present in the various territories. In some wetlands, the situation has gotten out of hand: the park, for example, raises animals, but if there are imbalances between predators and protected species, the result is that the latter becomes "carnage" for predatory species ".
July 2 2013
Source: LaNuovaFerrara