Even more incredible, a hunting association that declares itself a friend of hunters seems to affirm that the conservation status of bird species is to be defined on the basis of the SPEC classification - an acronym invented by BirdLife International, a protectionist association -, devoid of any official value and not used by any scientific body or by the Commission to define the status of wild bird populations. Certainly the ACV does not miss that the Italian partner of BirdLife International is the LIPU, with which there are evidently important ideological neighbors. Not even ISPRA has ever stated that for all 19 species listed the collection must be suspended in the two additional days, but the ACV has managed to do worse than the ISPRA against hunting! So let's clarify:
- The classification SPEC it has no official value therefore the list produced in the press release has no basis for classifying the conservation status of the species.
- The list of 19 species is that of the procedure EU PILOT 6955 / ENVI / 2014, now closed by the European Commission, therefore no longer valid.
- ISPRA has never indicated the 19 species mentioned by ACV like those not to be hunted in the two additional days.
Not having ISPRA indicated in the opinion which are the species not to hunt in the two additional days Hunting Federation took as reference those cited in the opinion of the Lombardy Region which are precisely: codon (single anatid), redwing, cesena and skylark. Obviously Federcaccia asks the Veneto Region not to take into consideration the considerations contained in the ACV press release and to proceed as indicated above for the suspension of the additional days. If instead of being interested in addressing and solving the critical issues of hunting and hunters you prefer to mess to play on discontent, you run the risk, as in this case, to make statements that go in the opposite direction, ending up approaching the philosophy of LAC and animal-environmentalist associations (Source: Hunting Federation).