Hunting with Bow: Perugia, the president of the Province, Aviano Rossi, sided with the animal rights activists of the Lav against the regional measures concerning Bow Hunting and the control of Gray Squirrels.
The Vice President of the Aviano Rossi Province signed the petition of the Anti-Divisection League against the regional measure of "suppression of gray squirrels". On the occasion, Rossi also supported the battle of the same organization against the possibility, in Umbria, of practicing the hunting animals with a bow. "It is incomprehensible - said Rossi - that a Region that has initiated the participation of a law on the protection of animals and their welfare capable of making it a model of reference at the national level, can take decisions such as the extermination of squirrels, or there bow hunting".
Continuing Rossi explained, “On the squirrel front, if a catastrophic invasion is foreseen, why with the previous project in the face of hundreds of thousands of euros were less than sixty squirrels killed in the whole territory? For ethical reasons, as a Province, we have said no to a new project, drawing on the same European resources for bollards capable of avoiding road accidents with deer, roe deer and other wild animals, avoiding injuries and deaths, animals and humans. But if you really want to proceed with the containment of gray squirrels, then after capture, sterilize them and release them, avoiding their suppression ".
Regarding the possibility of hunting with a bow, President Rossi stated “Incoherent and absurd is even the authorization to hunt with a bow, which causes suffering and hardship to animals which, once injured, could also become dangerous. Archery is a noble sport and to be valued, while archery is a macabre practice, disrespectful of the other forms of life that populate our environment, inconsistent with the law being adopted on animal protection, as well as with the values that the land of St. Francis should express ”.
Immediate distancing of the president of the Province Marco Vinicio Guasticchi: “On hunting and signing of petitions, the initiatives of the vice-president of the Province of Perugia, Aviano Rossi, are undertaken in a personal capacity and do not involve the president and the council. The position of the Province of Perugia is totally in line with the Umbria Region and the other associations that make up the regional wildlife-hunting council ”.
(13 August 2014)
Source: Corrieredell'Umbria