Hunting to ungulates in Tuscany. The Region is preparing to approve an ad hoc law to address the regional emergency of the massive presence of ungulates; the new law will be examined for approval tomorrow, November 3, within the regional council and will then be sent to the Council.
Today it will be possible to learn more about the details given that the regional councilor for agriculture and forests, Marco Remaschi, together with the undersecretary for the environment, Silvia Velo, will present the preview draft to journalists during a press conference. held at the press room of Palazzo Strozzi Sacrati in Florence.
In the meantime, the protest of the animal rights activists of LEAL, the Anti-Divisection League of Arezzo, has already arrived, which in an official note that after the positions taken, in recent days, of those in favor of the increase in killings, reiterates its clear denial towards hunting for reduce the number of animals.
Animal rights activists first of all declare themselves opposed to the idea “that man can do anything and that the animal is an inferior being without even the right to life”; moreover, the cause of the excessive proliferation of ungulates, far beyond the balance of biodiversity, is the consequence of wrong human behaviors such as “Immigration of animals from abroad, crossbreeds that give rise to more prolific hybrid breeds, foraging, excessive hunting pressure.
Therefore, according to Leal's animal rights activists, the remedies, obviously different from killing, to solve the problem are different. These include the use of “Electrified fences combined with dissuasive fodder; stop to foraging with heavy penalties; naturalistic and systemic forestry as a forest capable of providing food and protection retains the animals; mandatory wildlife censuses. Rather, serious experimentation could be initiated with pilot projects on farms with the use of repellent barriers capable of warding off ungulates. Lastly, we still remember sterilization, which is being perfected in other countries and is already activated in Great Britain and Australia ”.
(November 2, 2015)
Source: ArezzoNews