There is no sign of diminishing the controversy relating to anti-hunt billboards and those of response of the hunters in the Brescia area. The Honorable Barbara Mazzali, Lombardy regional councilor, intervened with this note commenting on a photo showing the hunters' poster soiled and full of insults: "I want to remind those who wrote those slanderous words that hunting plays various roles closely linked to the protection of the environment, including the regulation of surplus species and of invasive and harmful ones, as well as the supervision of the territory with a view to fire prevention and anti-poaching.
Reducing the environmental issue to positions for or against hunting diverts attention from the real problem, that is, to guarantee the good state of ecosystems and effective anti-pollution actions, in addition to those of mitigation of the effects of climate change. The hunter is the first person who cares about safeguarding ecosystems. Do not be scandalized by those 4 co ** ions that every day I offend the figure of the hunter if I say that whoever has the passion for hunting he is more environmentalist than them who, pontificating from the salons, do not even know what it means to have soil stuck to their boots or to free a piece of wood from waste ”.