Bad weather devastated the Trentino, as well as many other Italian regions. According to a preliminary investigation, it would have been lost 25% of the forests and for this reason WWF has decided to launch an appeal. Here is what the environmental association wrote: "We can immediately act in the direction of protecting, in particular, wildlife severely hit by the huge crashes of trees (preliminary surveys speak of a 25% of lost forest heritage).
For this reason, to protect what remains, we launch a heartfelt appeal to the Wildlife Committee aimed at the immediate suspension of any hunting activity, until a date to be decided. The hunters are at this moment called as everyone to choose, between farsightedness and myopia: we count that the culture of which Trentino boasts can be a guide towards a choice that appears inevitable, as long as hunting still aims to define itself as the protector of the faunal heritage, rather than its robber and exploiter ".
A not very different situation occurred in Veneto: the Region has ordered the closure of the hunting activity precisely because of the bad weather, now the situation has partly normalized and the local authority has authorized the reopening, except for the province of Belluno and Alto Vicentino.