Poaching. Yesterday, Tuesday, November 17, 2015, on a foggy autumn day, three volunteer hunting guards from the LAC of Turin, after a long stakeout near an urban garden in the municipality of Grugliasco, surprised an elderly man with a bird stakeout.
PS of 77 years of Grugliasco was intent on capturing goldfinches (Carduelis cardulelis) with a "crush", a type of net placed on the ground and manually controlled by the fowler hidden in a shed and with the use of caged specimens as a lure.
The goldfinch is an ornithic species with bright colors and a pleasant song, protected by the Italian law on hunting and the Berne Convention. Its capture is punishable by law, however the clandestine market of capturing birds is flourishing throughout Italy for amateurs with few scruples. The operation carried out is the first result, others will probably follow, to crush the clandestine market for birds which, even in Grugliasco, continues to exist alongside the legal market.
The Provincial Police subsequently intervened seized the animals held in the shed and searched the home of the fowler who earned a complaint to the Judicial Authority for various crimes including the theft aggravated to the unavailable assets of the State.
On the same day, eight goldfinches (carduelis carduelis), a greenfinch (Carduelis chloris) and a frosone (Coccothraustes coccothraustes), the results of the kidnapping, were released by agents in the Parco della Dora in the nearby town of Collegno right near the "Casa per l 'Ambiente ”where LAC Piemonte has its regional headquarters.
(November 18, 2015)
Source: TorinoToday