Legambiente Piedmont and Valle d'Aosta has filed its observations to the Decree 83/2020 "Provisions related to the regional stability law 2020". The subject of revision is Chapter 2 "Provisions on mining activities", that Chapter 3 "Provisions on agriculture and hunting". The Bill provides, among other things: the repeal of the hunting ban for fifteen species currently protected (wigeon, gadwall, shoveler, pintail, garganey, coot, water rail, whisk, lapwing, fighter, pochard, lark, blackbird, ptarmigan, variable hare); the derogation from the ban on the inclusion of “ready-to-hunt” wildlife; the green light to hunting nomadism, inserting the possibility for a hunter to hunt not only in the ATC where he has established his hunting abode, but potentially in all regional ATCs; green light for boar hunting at night; the downsizing of the use of high visibility clothing.
Rules for which Legambiente Piemonte and Valle d'Aosta asks for an excerpt and a postponement to a new discussion once out of the current emergency state or, alternatively, cancellation. “In a moment of health emergency, it is not reasonable to go all out on divisive and complex rules such as those contained in the bill in question. In this historical moment - he declares George Prino, president of Legambiente Piemonte and Valle d'Aosta - it is dangerous to foresee greater hunting mobility (species, times and spaces). A real deregulation for an absolutely unnecessary activity for the country, which also creates damage to fauna and the environment.
It would be exactly the opposite of what all scientific indications ask to defend the health of citizens and promote and support a social and economic recovery in a context that has greatly changed since the pandemic ”. “We are witnessing an obvious and completely unjustified attempt to go towards the“ free trigger ”- he declares Angel Door, vice president of Legambiente Piemonte and Valle d'Aosta - Among the species to which hunting is to be opened, some are "threatened globally", others that are endangered on the European continent, others finally at high risk in relation to cclimatic changes in the mountain environment.
Night hunting “with the aid of light sources” puts all wildlife at great risk and not just the ungulates subject to the measure and, ultimately, the hunters themselves. The only limitation that lies ahead, or the possibility of prohibiting hunting on an open ground, is linked to a non-existent regional wildlife plan, which the regional council has postponed for three years and which we are waiting for “only” 28 years. It is absurd that for the amusement of a small minority, moreover in constant decline, of Piedmontese citizenship, endanger the survival of protected species and environmental riches that may represent the driving force for an upcoming economic recovery ".
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