A petition that is addressed directly to the Prime Minister. There LIPU (Italian Bird Protection League) e Birdlife Italy they asked Prime Minister Matteo Renzi to exclude the lark from the list of huntable species provided for by the Hunting Law. The initiative takes its cue from a data released by the associations, that is the killing of two million specimens every year in Italy.
In addition, the official statement made known as from 2000 to 2014 the population of larks fell by 45 percentage points, in particular in Lombardy, Veneto and Emilia Romagna. The larks killed in our country would even be 73% of those hunted throughout Europe, another reason to justify this petition. The League also underlined how widespread the practice is do not mark the number of specimens taken on the hunting cards.
In addition, the lark is easily confused with the pipit, the calender, the calandrella, the cappellaccia and the tottavilla. The campaign in favor of the bird was officially presented at the fifty-first National Assembly of the LIPU in Comacchio (province of Ferrara). Now the main objective, as emerges in the press release, is to mobilize as many citizens as possible, as happened in the case of the abolition of catches of live decoys.