Poaching in the Lecce area. Positive start for the anti-poaching campaign by the forestry corps in the province of Lecce. Since the beginning of the hunting seasonThere have been numerous interventions that have led to significant results, aimed both at contrasting the use of electromagnetic acoustic signals and hunting activities aimed at non-huntable species.
33 artificial acoustic calls for birds and five seized rifles during a series of night and day checks carried out in various Salento municipalities. In particular, the agents of the forest station command of Tricase seized twenty acoustic signals that reproduced the sound of the quail in the municipalities of Santa Cesarea Terme, Montesano Salentino, Ruffano, Acquarica del Capo, Ugento, Salve, Patù and Presicce, Tricase, Corsano, Alessano, Castrignano del Capo and Gagliano del Capo. The devices were found in plastic buckets hidden in bushes, between dry stone walls or in trap doors cemented into the rock or buried.
On the other hand, the total number of electromagnetically operated acoustic calls seized by colleagues from Lecce during night services aimed at combating the use of such calls is eight. The discovery took place in several campaigns in the municipalities of Lecce, Caprarica, Sternatia, Copertino and San Donato di Lecce.
The agents of the Nipaf of Lecce and of the forestry of Gallipoli, on the other hand, surprised and reported a 62-year-old man from Seclì and a 67-year-old from Aradeo in the locality of "Ianni" in Seclì and "Fondo Perella" in Aradeo. not huntable and the first also for hunting with electromagnetic acoustic call. Kidnapped birds, two shotguns, cartridges and an electromagnetic recall were seized.
The foresters of Gallipoli, in the locality of “Nucci” in the countryside of Nardò, surprised and denounced two men of 27 and 75 years old, all from Neretina, intent on hunting migratory birds by illegally using an electronically operated acoustic signal provided with a remote control. The three used hunting rifles with their cartridges and the recall were seized.
Source: LeccePrima
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