Hunting: Liguria, considerable damage to be estimated caused by the suspension of hunting due to continuous animal rights appeals since the beginning of the 2013-2014 Hunting Season.
The continuous suspension of the hunting activity decreed by the Liguria TAR in the last weeks as a preventive measure up to the merit examination scheduled for next 13 November, has already caused considerable damage of which the leader of the Northern League in the Regional Council, Francesco Bruzzone, has committed to making an estimate. In fact, on the question Bruzzone affirmed, “The TAR of Liguria deemed it appropriate to postpone the examination of the request for suspension of the hunting calendar to November 13th. We take note of this decision and await that date with the utmost serenity. In the meantime, I will use this time to estimate the damage caused by previous hunting suspensions. This is not a simple quantification, because the subjects who have suffered damage are many ”. "First of all the hunters, of course - explained Bruzzone - who could not go hunting in the best times of the year, then the farmers, then again the hinterland businesses, in particular bars and restaurants - who, in a phase of economic crisis, in the only period of the year in which they could work, they had no customers - as well as the bodies themselves, the Provinces and the Region, which during the stop had to use energy to remedy the situation, without finally neglecting the non-negligible damage to the environment ".
"Because hunting, contrary to what some think, - concluded Bruzzone - is designed precisely to intervene on the environment, at certain times of the year, with laws that regulate it: the lack of intervention on the environment and the control of ungulates has determined these situations. I am not willing to overlook and get away with this damage, and with me I also believe all the categories that have suffered the interruption of the hunt ”.
Northern Liguria League Press Office
(8 November 2013)