The alleged killings
Despite appeals, agreements with animal rights associations and complaints, the Tuscan Archipelago Park continues to massacre moufflons of the Isola del Giglio, even against the scientific evidence that should push us to preserve their genetic peculiarity." This was stated by the Honorable Michela Vittoria Brambilla, president of the Italian League for Animal Defense and the Environment, denouncing the alleged culling of mouflons taking place in recent days on the island in the province of Grosseto.
The words of the Hon. Brambilla
“After various discussions that I had personally with the president of the Park Giampiero Sammuri – continues the animal rights parliamentarian – we had obtained a good result: the hunters had been stopped and a commitment had been made to keep the associations constantly informed on the methods of capture and transfer of mouflons from Giglio Island. However, two years later, it pains me to see how the culling of these animals has resumed at full speed."
Unique genetic variants
“This is a doubly wrong decision: not only because it takes the lives of innocent animals, but also because the Giglio mouflons possess unique genetic variants, no longer present in the source population, which is the Sardinian one. Killing them therefore means losing a precious heritage, which can no longer be recovered. For this reason I ask the Park Authority and its president to retrace their steps and put an end to this senseless massacre, now almost complete. It matters little that stamps, stamps and signatures are in order: the slaughter has already caused serious environmental damage."
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