Success for environmentalists: the Campania Regional Administrative Court stops the hunt

Success for environmentalists: the Campania Regional Administrative Court stops the hunt and has also set the collegial hearing for October 11th.

With a precautionary decree, the president of the Regional Administrative Court, Section III, granted the petition presented by the associations LIPU BirdLife Italy and WWF Italy, represented by the lawyer Maurizio Balletta, and suspended the hunting season, which the Region had set for September 18th. The measure concerns the species: common teal, gadwall, northern pintail, coot, water rail, mallard duck, common moorhen, garganey, wigeon, northern shoveler, common snipe, and common snipe, and until September 21st for the species: pheasant and quail.

The TAR also set the collegiate hearing for October 11th.

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The appeal was filed following the publication by the Region of a resolution amending the previously published Hunting Calendar. This was not intended to increase measures to protect biodiversity, but rather to bring forward the hunting of certain bird species. This was in response to the requests of hunting associations, which, after publishing press releases and submitting them to various regional bodies, had even challenged the hunting calendar before the Regional Administrative Court (TAR), only to later withdraw their appeal following the amendment adopted by the Region.

The TAR motivated its decision precisely on the basis of the "extreme gravity and urgency consisting in the "concrete and imminent exposure to danger of wildlife species before the natural deadlines established in the original hunting calendar".

"We express our satisfaction - declare the appellant associations, WWF Italy and LIPU BirdLife Italy - For this important result, we blame Campania, which demonstrates how political power is incapable of resisting pressure from certain quarters, even when these pressures conflict with the constitutionally protected principles of biodiversity and environmental protection. We cannot help but condemn the arrogant and overbearing behavior of hunting associations, which, based on the assumption that wild fauna, which is everyone's heritage, is the exclusive property of hunters, have waged a brutal pressure campaign. We call on the institutions to fulfill their proper role, which is to defend and protect our common heritage and not use it as an electoral bargaining chip.