Animal welfare associations on the attack. The complaint a few days ago comes from Enpa, Lac, Lav, Lipu / BirdLife Italia and WWF Italia, who point out: "In recent weeks, while Italy is in full emergency coronavirus, many regions, taking advantage of the understandable and low level of attention of public opinion, are issuing measures in favor of hunting, starting from unconstitutional myths up to authorizations for the implementation of fauna "control" plans, which will allow the hunter-selecontrollers to go out on the territory in total disregard for the restrictive measures taken by the Government ».
The five protectionist animal welfare associations recall in a joint statement how "" Hunting and related activities are excluded from those that have been authorized as they cannot be deferred " and highlight that instead "some regions, such as Emilia-Romagna and Veneto, continue to maintain or activate the" wildlife control plans "not only with public personnel - which could be used differently in this period - but also with the help of private operators - or hunters - allowing them to move within their respective provinces despite the limitations introduced for contain the infection».
And in the other regions there is not even the excuse of selection hunting: "The Region of Sardinia has found the time to approve yet another unconstitutional rule on wildlife control, giving the owner of a agricultural fund to freely involve, through a proxy, the hunter on duty. Yet, six sentences of the Constitutional Court have rejected similar laws precisely because they introduced private figures not covered by the national law 157 of 1992 on the protection of fauna ".
Enpa, Lac, Lav, Lipu and Wwf conclude: "All these measures determine the illegitimate lowering of the level of protection of the environment and wildlife provided for by national and supranational legislation and pursue the one and only goal of widen the margins for carrying out the hunting practice which, it is reiterated, is a mere playful activity, even violating the Dpcm issued to protect public health. An attitude that must really be condemned, at a time when we should all support the government's security initiatives and work only and together for the common good ”.