As announced by the three environmental associations LAC, ENPA and LAV, Regional Administrative Court of Liguria decided to grant their appeal and to suspend the starling hunt yesterday, Monday 3 October 2016. The resolution examined by the judges is the one that dates back to last June 17 and which had authorized the withdrawal in derogation in the period included between September 25th and December 25st.
According to the associations, the motivation for the protection of olive production is "bogus" and cannot justify the killing of 11 thousand specimens by the hunters. Furthermore, too large territories would have been chosen, also including Ligurian municipalities that cannot be classified as olive groves. The block will however be temporary and will last until next 27 October, that is, until the day on which there will be a collegial sentence of suspension.
Since yesterday, bringing down the starlings entails a criminal risk and that of judicial seizure of the rifle, as well as of the prey eventually killed. The associations also wanted to underline that resolutions such as these are not important, as they are already subject to censorship, and that the "minority fringe of the hunting world" should no longer be satisfied.
As usual we hunters undergo the ballets of the appeals to the TAR of the various anti-hunting associations,
In the EC Directive 2009/147 on the conservation of wild birds.
Annex II part B, the Starling is considered huntable in the following states: Belgium, Holland, France, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Cyprus, Malta, Hungary, Romania.
If our European parliamentarians for huntable species in Italy would have adapted to these nations, there would be no more recourse to the TAR.