Four poachers reported in an Oasis of Protection in the province of Caltanissetta during an operation carried out by the Carabinieri in collaboration with the Voluntary Hunting Guards.
The operation was triggered following a report that could have been founded: on the morning of Saturday 29 October in the protection oasis of the Scala district, in the province of Caltanissetta, poachers could have been found hunting wild rabbits and rock partridges. .
Thus at the first light of dawn the Carabinieri of the stations of Marianopoli and Villalba, in the same province of the Oasis of protection, together with the local WWF Volunteer Hunting Guards waiting to surprise the poachers.
The shots were not long in coming and came from the area on the edge of the protection oasis; on the spot a car is found inside which numerous empty hunting rifle cases and a box for the transport of dogs can be seen.
During the inspection two men, the poachers themselves, are seen inside the Protection Oasis but the territory is inaccessible and the roads impassable therefore the off-road vehicle of the Carabinieri takes too long to reach the car found and the two men manage to lose their tracks.
Soon after still in the middle of the Oasis, two other men are noticed coming from the nearby Azienda Faunistico Venatoria; the two wear two rabbits killed but on their hunting cards there is no trace of a transcription of the killed animals.
The two poachers try to justify themselves by making excuses and reinventing hunting laws like the affirmation that within the company the badges do not have to be filled in, to this is added the fact that the two were in the middle of the protection oasis.
The Carabinieri did not think twice about it and the two poachers from Agrigento were reported on the loose, they were administratively sanctioned for the failure to record the items on the card and both the rifles and the cartridges and the two killed rabbits were seized.
Subsequently, turning again in the area, the Carabinieri still stop two other poachers inside the Oasis, this time from Caltanissetta; they are the first two who had vanished and escaped control. The men of the Arma recognize them above all by a detail: one of the two still wore a brightly colored hat noticed on one of the two escaped. The picture is complete, even these two poachers have been denounced on the loose by the Carabinieri.
Needless to point out how much it is deplorable the behavior of these people who never miss an opportunity to throw mud on the good name of honest Italian hunters thus making them re-enter, with biased eyes, in their own bundle of bad grass. On the other hand, it is very important to underline how much all honest Italian hunters despise poaching in all its forms and actively undertake to fight it for the protection of the territory.