In the unified text of the proposals of regional law n. 66 and n. 72, which should adapt the regional legislation of Piemonte in force with the new national law on safety in the practice of winter and summer mountain sports and the regulation of flying activities in mountain areas, the Regional Councilor Valter Marin has inserted the letter "e" of paragraph 14 of Article 22 authorization a transport the bodies of the culled deer downstream by hunters with the helicopter. The associations "Rifugio Miletta" of Agrate Conturbia (NO) and "Centro Recovery Ricci La Ninna" of Novello (CN) launched a petition on Sunday 28 November asking the Regional Council of Piedmont to remove this step.
More than 8.000 signatures were collected in approximately 48 hours. “There is a lot of talk about ecological transition and then, whoever has the responsibility to legislate, uses tricks to allow a minority to exterminate more and more animals, now even in remote places, to take away any possibility of salvation from them. And, as if this weren't enough, they authorize the use of the helicopter to recover their bodies in spite of the need to promote and support activities with the lowest possible environmental impact "says Alessandra Motta, president of Miletta Refuge.
"It is unacceptable that, in such a dramatic time of environmental devastation and loss of biodiversity, as well as a profound crisis of mankind linked to the pandemic and global warming, let our politicians try to destroy what little fauna and flora that remains. We ask that the use of helicopters to support the hunting world in bringing downstream deer killed at high altitudes. A barbaric method, which deprives animals of the possibility of escaping death.
It is evident that we have now decimated most of the animal species due to hunting and neglect of the environment and, despite this, now we try to allow this violent practice, called sport, to easily reach even the last areas where animals find refuge ”, adds Dr. Massimo Vacchetta, head of the Ricci La Ninna Recovery Center (Piedmontese newspaper).