As expected, the most varied animal-environmentalist acronyms have announced the appeal to the Regional Administrative Court against the resolution authorizing the capturing live decoys. The president of the League for the Abolition of Hunting (LAC) of Lombardy speaks of a practice abolished in 2015 by the National Law, of a “brutal” practice and keep hunters silent about administering hormones and the constriction of calls in the dark. Such statements are unacceptable, also because they offend an entire category and give it a biased and distorted image.
In 2015 the national law it has not abolished nets, but clarified that this practice must be brought back into the derogation procedure provided for by the Birds Directive, following a very specific procedure entrusted to the Regions which has been respected, and which also allows to disregard the opinions of ISPRA. So no violations and no forcing, and no "brutality": indeed, on the merits it should be specified that the networks used are more selective than those used by animal rights activists in their research facilities and that the operators in charge immediately release the non-captured species that may become trapped.
One wonders why if the networks use them animal rights activists are allowed, while if used by windmills they are a "brutal practice". The specimens to be captured are very few, but it helps a lot at least to keep alive a rural activity that deserves to be the heritage of theUNESCO, like falconry which already is. And hunters do not use or administer hormones to calls to force estrus, nor keep the calls segregated for months in the dark. Modern techniques are based on the hours of light that birds would find in nature in the period of mating. The warnings are not subject to any ill-treatment (Federcaccia Lombardy).