WWF e Onlus Legal Intervention Group have decided to appeal to the Regional Administrative Court of Sardinia against the island's hunting calendar relating to 2019-2020 season. Here is the text of their press release: "Despite a now constant jurisprudence, the 2019-2020 regional hunting calendar of Sardinia still includes crazy game-carriers without any real faunal census which ensures the survival of the wildlife species being hunted.
This is the case of the wild rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus): compared to a potential daily game bag of n. 5 foldable garments and of as many as 25 cullable animals in the entire hunting season for each of the 35.987 hunters, an absurd and unacceptable overall potential game bag of 899.675 cullable animals was authorized. Still in the absence of wildlife-hunting planning, without any wildlife census, in clear contrast with the technical-scientific opinion (note prot.n.49150 of 8 August 2019) of the Higher Institute for Research and Environmental Protection (ISPRA) and without knowing if there are even 900 wild rabbits in Sardinia.
The hunting of Sardinian hare (Lepus capensis mediterraneus) e Sardinian partridge (Alectoris barbara) on Sunday 6 and Sunday 13 October 2019 with 2 specimens of Hare and 4 of partridge that can be knocked down for each hunter, that is an overall game bag of well 71.974 Hares and 143.948 Partridges. The relative wildlife censuses were not made known during the meeting of the Regional Wildlife Committee which consequently decided in the dark. To defend these species of the island's wildlife, which are endangered by absurd pro-hunting choices, WWF and onlus Legal Intervention Group, thanks to the lawyer Carlo Augusto Melis Costa del Foro di Cagliari, challenged the 2019-2020 regional hunting calendar before the Sardinia TAR asking for its partial cancellation. The administrative judges will, therefore, be called upon once again to evaluate the work of the Autonomous Region of Sardinia on the protection of fauna ".