With sentence number 780, the Regional Administrative Court has declared illegitimate and canceled or suspended some important parts of the resolution of the Regional Council of the Liguria n. 386 (approved on 10 May last), which enacted the rules for the current hunting season, the so-called hunting calendar 2019-2020. This was announced by the League for the Abolition of Hunting and the Ligurian delegation of the WWF. “As often happens - they write Lac and Wwf - the Liguria Region has circumvented the mandatory preventive opinion of the Higher Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (ISPRA) with spurious reasons.
The TAR Liguria (2nd section) has in fact established that the two additional days of hunting per week, in addition to the three canonicals, in the months of October and November, for hunting the Cesena (species belonging to the turdidae family), must be reduced to only one; the closure of the song thrush hunt is brought forward by 10 days, from January 31st to January 20th next; the closing date of the hunt for aquatic species (Mallard, Moorhen, Coot, Teal, Pintail, Wigeon, Shoveler, Garganey, Gadwall, Water Rail, Whisk, Lapwing, Snipe and Pochard) will be brought forward by 10 days, from January 31st to January 20th; hunting for Moretta, Moriglione and Pavoncella species is suspended; hunting from fixed and temporary stalking must be prohibited within a radius of 500 meters from wetlands ".
“About the immediate annotation of each garment killed on the regional hunting card (regardless of the actual recovery of the prey) and the illegitimate hunting of migrants 30 minutes after sunset, the TAR reserved a final judgment after the ruling of the Constitutional Court, already called to assess the content of dubious constitutionality of some parts of the Ligurian regional hunting law, clearly in contrast with the state regulations of the sector ”they conclude.