Massimo Buconi, national vice president of Italian Federation of Hunting, intervened during the Rai program "One morning" to answer the number one of the LIPU (Italian Bird Protection League), Fulvio Mammone Capria. The program has in fact dedicated a space to the request that various animal rights and environmentalist associations are forwarding to postpone or even completely suspend the hunting season due to fires and drought.
Buconi responded with great firmness and authority to LIPU's arguments. In particular, the vice president explained how hunters are ready to defer to the decisions of the authorities, as long as they are based on precise scientific facts and ascertained by independent bodies. Consequently, we must not let ourselves be "overwhelmed" by the wave of an emotionality as strong as it is uninformed.
Buconi also recalled how the calculation method used by animal rights activists to mark the disappearance of 40 million animals due to fires allows to obtain an amazing figure for what concerns the animals present throughout Italy, that is 5 billion. The number two of the FIDC finally concluded with a clarification that is not mentioned by anyone: this very hot and rain-free season has meant that the reproduction rate of wild animals was particularly high and positive.