The Council of Ministers takes sides against the two laws passed by the Provinces of Trento and Bolzano to allow the killing of wolves and bears, which has ruled in favor of the appeal before the Constitutional Court.
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They don't kill wolves and bears! The Council of Ministers takes sides against the two "wolf and bear killing" laws passed by the Provinces of Trento and Bolzano respectively on 11 and 16 July to allow the killing of wolves and bears. 'appeal before the Constitutional Court.
Notwithstanding the national legislation and in conflict with the European standards that ensure particular protection for these wild animals, those laws of Trento and Bolzano which would authorize "the taking, capturing or killing of specimens of the species Ursus arctos and Lupus canis", in reality they represent a very serious precedent that must be blocked in time.
On this line, the Minister of the Environment Costa had already been very clear, who was immediately opposed by declaring "I will challenge them, killing is not necessary" and promising that for the species protected at European level there can be no forced slaughter because the competence on fauna wild, in particular the protected or endangered one, belongs to the state.
Fauna is a unavailable asset of the state and the management of the most important and threatened species must be done at least on a national basis, having an overall and non-local vision of their conservation, so much so that it is regulated by European and international Directives.
Finally, therefore, comes the promised appeal that will bring the two orders before the Supreme Court to decide on their legitimacy.
“We are particularly satisfied with the position taken by this government which marks a clear break with the previous administration - states the LAV. To protect the human activities carried out in the territory occupied by wolves and bears, there are effective and non-bloody prevention tools, it is not acceptable that the only solution proposed by the two provincial administrations is limited to giving the green light to the killing of animals ".
The two disputed laws passed by the Provinces of Trento and Bolzano to allow the killing of wolves and bears are "real propaganda laws, to the benefit of hunters and farmers, approved a few weeks before the elections which will see the renewal of the councils Provincial. Too risky to think of an operation designed to obtain electoral consent? - comments Massimo Vitturi, head of LAV Wild Animals. Regardless of the reasons, the two laws represent the often widespread attitude of those local politicians who, in the name of a badly managed autonomy, go so far as to violate national law or constitutional principles, in the interest of few. An intolerable fact that we hope the censorship of the Supreme Court will meet ”.
A splendid news, therefore, which can only serve as a warning also for those Regions, such as Tuscany and Veneto, which had announced similar legislative initiatives and as a wish that the National Plan on the wolf is finally approved, excluding the chapter that provides for the killing. some animals.
Coexistence with animals? It is guaranteed only with education and correct information, also providing concrete solutions for the prevention of damage. Killing is just a serious act of incivility!
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