To contain the number of pigeons, after Turin also in the province of Asti you can shoot. We will have to have a weapon port and follow a training course, but in fact the solution remains to kill. Environmental associations arise that recall the existence of other measures.
As you read on the local portal ‘The new province‘, after a census of species, the administration deduced that the number of some of them was definitely higher than “normal” and authorized the containment through the reduction. Among these, the pigeons that Asti alone were equal to 14 thousand per square kilometer.
In the inhabited centers – explains in particular, the delegated councilor Davide Migliasso – capture cages will be installed in strategic points of greater concentration while outside the inhabited centers the demolition with firearm is allowed by the hunting guards, of fauna supervisory agents and anyone in possession of a port of arms with authorization to contain wildlife containing wildlife
In other words, for the pigeons, in particular, you will proceed to capture in the inhabited centers, while outside the inhabited centers you can directly shoot (but in addition to the authorities, only those who are in possession of a weapons are authorized and have followed a training course).
The Province of Asti will make available to the municipalities that have adopted the plan and who request cages for the capture of birds, but each administration is authorized to buy their own and is free to decide their positioning on its territory.
Because right now and why the pigeons
The Province actually had a very dated plan that was to be updated, and focuses a lot to pigeons due to their impact on city life.
(…) Also in consideration of the proliferation of these birds that cause serious damage to public and private buildings. Not to mention the hygienic health emergency that derives from the persistence of their excrements but also parasites (which spread both to pets and humans) that nest in their plumage – continues Migliasso – the danger of spreading parasites and bacteria has also increased by the very common discovery of lifeless pigeons on roads, sidewalks, public gardens and areas frequented by people and other animals and other animals
Only at the last, however, it reminds everyone to avoid feeding them, which favors their reproduction.
Thunders the association Sustainability equity solidarity (Sequs):
Sequs expresses strong opposition to the ordinance signed by the president of the province and mayor of Asti, Maurizio Rasero, which provides for the reduction of pigeons in the city through traps and subsequent suppression by breaking the cervical vertebra, in addition to the possibility, for those in possession of a port of arms, to shoot the animals outside the inhabited center after a short provincial course. The Association disputes the choice of bloody methods, considering them without scientific bases and in contrast with an ecological approach to fauna management
In fact, there are much less bloody (and even more effective) measures, already experimented for example in Brussels, such as the use of sterilizing feed.
But no, better to kill, it is done first.
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Sources: the new province / sequs
