The movement "The Conscience of the animals" with an open letter to the President of the Council to the Regions and to the Hunting Associations has asked for the "State of calamity for the animals".
With an "open letter" to the Prime Minister Mario Monti, the regional governors and the presidents of the hunting associations, the founders of the "Animal Consciousness" movement, the former ministers Michela Vittoria Brambilla and Umberto Veronesi, and the "guarantors" of the manifesto - Susanna Tamaro, Franco Zeffirelli, Elio Fiorucci, Vittorio Feltri, Edoardo Stoppa, Don Luigi Lorenzetti, Maurizio Costanzo, Dacia Maraini and Margherita Hack - ask, in relation to the severe drought of recent months, the proclamation of a real "state of calamity natural ”for wildlife,“ with consequent protection measures ”for animal populations in difficulty, the suspension of the hunting season and the adhesion of the hunters themselves to the appeal.
“The devastating consequences that afflict nature and animals due to this year's persistent drought are there for all to see - writes the movement that has always been for the abolition of hunting”. According to the founders of the “Animal Consciousness” movement, creatures that live free in the woods and in the countryside are dying of thirst: “If they haven't already lost their lives in fires.
The high temperatures, the lack of precipitation, the absence of night dew subject animal species to extraordinary physical stress, with devastating effects on population dynamics ". When water sources are reduced and dispersed, they explain, "the greater energy expenditure necessary to reach them makes reproduction more difficult and causes high mortality, especially among younger individuals, for whom the risk of contracting diseases and being preyed upon increases. ".
For the movement, then, there is a shortage of berries, seeds and insects, which represent the basis of the food chain. There is no grass, no leaves, the trees are dying. With the drying up of the marshy areas, in fact, aquatic habitats tend to reduce or even disappear. Everywhere, the Forestry Corps collects little bodies of lifeless animals, documents deaths between litters and broods.
In short, the guarantors continue, "we are experiencing a real tragedy, an emergency situation and in these conditions, authorizing hunting activities would be tantamount to inflicting the coup de grace on entire generations of animals, already decimated by drought, violating the letter and the spirit of Directive 147/2009 EC which allows hunting only if it does not harm wild bird populations.
And violating common sense, even before the law. Because you can't shoot poor creatures who are already dying, it would be like picking up a rifle in an extermination camp ”. Hence the appeal to the presidents of the Regions to do their best not to start the hunting season: "Since the pre-opening season, scheduled for the next few days, is a stalking hunt, the concentration of birds around the few remaining wetlands would risk turn it into a real massacre. A suicidal madness. The hunters themselves know this well, to whom we ask, if they really love nature as they say they love it, to join our appeal ”.
The movement "The Conscience of the Animals" was born from the will of Brambilla and Veronesi, to give a voice to those who have no voice and to contribute significantly to the creation of a new culture of love and protection of animals and respect for their rights. Other important personalities have accepted this invitation.
From Margherita Hack to Susanna Tamaro, from Franco Zeffirelli to Dacia Maraini. And again: Renato Zero, Vittorio Feltri, Elio Fiorucci, Don Luigi Lorenzetti, Antoine Goetschel, Franco Bergamaschi and Edoardo Stoppa. The Manifesto signed by over one hundred thousand people was born from the work of this pool of significant animal defenders (go to the site) in order to raise public awareness on the need to respect animals, and to put an end to the various forms of cruelty that unfortunately still today they are practiced against them.
In recent years, La Conscienza degli animali has promoted important campaigns against the exploitation of animals in breeding for the production of meat, for the promotion of a "veg" diet, against vivisection, the extermination of fur animals and against the hunting. The Consciousness of the Animals is a movement in defense of life, which belongs to all creatures and which man does not have the right to dispose of.
Source: Giornale.it