According to the prestigious British newspaper The Guardian, in an article of April 7 where the environmentalist Stefania Travaglia del Committee Against Birds Slaughters (group of European anti-poaching activists), Brescia it is the place, on the European continent, where more birds are killed illegally. The environmental association, based on 40 years of activity in the area, as reported by The Guardian, believes that "poachers have taken from 400 to one million birds". The deal, according to the English newspaper, it is profitable, because it earns from three euros per dead bird to 100 for one alive.
Also in The Guardian we also read that, if “it is against the law to cook birds in Italian restaurants, dishes like the spit and the "polenta e osei" they are still served in rural areas of the north ”. Environmentalists, in the Guardian, believe that 70% of poachers captured have a hunting license. There was no shortage of reactions in Bresciano yesterday. "These are the usual slanders periodically spread by extremist fringes of environmentalists - says Marco Bruni, president of Hunting Federation -. This year the WWF published the report of its activities in the province of Brescia, claiming to have raised 20 criminal penalties. There are 20 hunters from Brescia, with an average of 20 hunting days each. Numbers are infinitesimal.
Then the British are not to judge us when if you go hunting in the United Kingdom, specifically in Scotland, for a day with a dog in tow to hunt the grouse you will also spend 500 pounds. In Italy the capercaillie is protected and none in the Bresciano last year he was fined for killing one". According to the last municipal forest ranger in Italy, Giuseppe Quetti, a local police officer in Pisogne, what the Guardian wrote “It's not true. In Pisogne, we fined ten poachers. There are 400 hunters and no one has done any wrongdoing. Brescia is the Italian province with more hunters, but hunter and poacher are not the same thing "(The day).