In the late afternoon of Tuesday 25 May, Militanti di One hundred percentanimalists they went to the headquarters of the institution Park of the Euganean Hills in Este and poured 10 kg of horse dung in front of the entrance. The activists also posted posters with explicit messages against hunters, with a clear reference to the new President of the institution, Richard Masin, who is known to all have a passion for hunting. For the Centopercentoanimalisti, as one of the posters posted during the blitz states, "Our fight has officially begun."
"The Park - let the Centopercentoanimalisti know with a note - is anything but a natural paradise: the previous management (against which we have often intervened) they allowed building speculations, factories, quarries, hunting etc. Now the appointment of Riccardo Masin as president borders on the absurd. First of all because he is also president of Federcaccia, and himself an avid hunter. Anyone who does not already see total incompatibility in this is blind.
He has always been in favor of the extermination of wild boars (introduced into the area by hunters) and other "redundant" animals. In 2017 he tried to subtract a large part of the municipal territory from the Park and his vision, declared by himself, is transform the park into a profitable area, favoring all activities that bring profit, in spite of protecting the environment "(Padua Today).