Hunting: Puglia, the changes to the regional hunting law do not like the environmentalists who ask for the intervention of the Governor.
LIPU-Birdlife Italy, together with Lac, WWF, Enpa, rise up against a deadly proposal to modify the regional hunting law of Puglia, 27/98, signed by the councilor Donato Pentassuglia (Pd). A clear and incredible attempt to give a gift to the most fierce ultra minority of citizens in possession of a hunting card. With an open letter to Governor Vendola, which risks opening the Region - already so unfriendly to animals and the environment - towards a hunting deregulation full of serious irregularities, among other things, the associations ask to immediately reject the proposal, which is close to landing. in the Council: “Puglia is preparing to vote one of the worst Italian laws on hunting, full of constitutional illegitimacy and full of intolerable contents. The President Vendola intervenes immediately to stop this shameful law thus avoiding that Puglia is a candidate for the black jersey of the country ". Says Enzo Cripezzi, coordinator of Lipu Puglia: "The philosophy with which Pentassuglia has set up its proposal further increases the already existing distance between the Apulian law and 157/92, a state law for the protection of wildlife, incorporating it in a confused and contradictory, in some cases blatantly breaking it. An initiative therefore under the banner of bad hunting, which will generate immediate appeals to the Constitutional Court, the TAR and the European Commission ”.
In fact, the council draft confirms, throughout the Region, the go-ahead for the hunting of migratory birds (amendment to art.25 paragraph 4), indicating the non-existent, nowadays, hunting and without any planning and sustainable management of the species. , in clear violation of national law and recent rulings of the Constitutional Court. Furthermore, just when the Lipu-Birdlife requires the complete abolition of live calls - a shameful and cruel custom - on the entire Italian territory, the Apulian proposal would like to increase them (amendment to art.36 paragraph 7bis) providing in addition that the wildlife control is entrusted to teams of hunters (amendment to art. 34 paragraph 10), a condition incompatible with the requirements of rigor that nothing should share with hunting.
And again, it is suggested to increase the daily hunting permits in the ATC-Territorial hunting area (amendment to article 14 paragraph 5) and fences two meters high, against the already very expensive meter and twenty without solution of continuity indicated by the legislation. national (amendment to art. 38 paragraph 2), in order to establish funds closed to hunting. In order to defend against that legal monster which is article 842 of the Civil Code thanks to which anyone who enters a private property is an intruder, except for the hunter - alone or in a group - who is armed to the teeth with very powerful range rifles, it can chase its prey and shoot up to 150 meters from homes.
It goes without saying that hunting according to Passuglia is authorized in advance from 1 September, reducing however from 40% to 10% (modification of art. 54 paragraph 1) the resources transferred from the Region to the Provinces to protect wildlife. For at least three years, in any case, the Councilor has been working to liberalize and favor the contested hunting hobby as much as possible.
November 9, 2013
Source: Repubblica