Politics goes back thirty years and delivers the hardest blow ever recorded against Italian wildlife. With 80 votes in favor and 56 against, the centre-right majority blocked the Malan bill in the Senate, a measure strongly supported by Minister Francesco Lollobrigida which dismantles the scientific and legal barriers established in 1992.
What the promoters define as a reorganization, in fact turns out to be a total concession to the gun and hunting lobbies. Hunting activity is now redefined as a functional tool for ecological conservation, formally transforming the figure of the hunter into that of a bioregulator of the territory. A linguistic stretch that ignores the sensitivity of the vast majority of Italian citizens, who have always been against the extension of hunting and in favor of real protection of biodiversity.
Nature under siege between violated coastlines and species at risk
The details emerging from the approved text outline a disturbing scenario for public safety and the environment. The boundaries of tolerance are being reset: hunters will have legal access to territories that were previously forbidden, being able to shoot within public woods, state-owned areas and even on beaches frequented by citizens.
The ecological balance risks being devastating. The bill not only expands the list of huntable species, condemning millions of specimens to death, but carries out an act of unprecedented gravity: the wolf loses its status as a particularly protected species. This fundamental predator for the balance of our ecosystems is downgraded, effectively opening the way to indiscriminate hunting and legalized selection hunting.
The betrayal of the Constitution and the last parliamentary trench
Animal rights associations denounce a clear and violent conflict with Article 9 of the Constitution, which imposes the protection of ecosystems and animals as a supreme value, even for future generations. The moral rift is so deep that it has even raised a transversal front within Parliament, which addressed an appeal to Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni recalling the values of Pope Francis’ ecologist encyclical on the protection of the common home and the historical warnings of Leo XIV. With the first green light received at Palazzo Madama, the axis of political confrontation now shifts to the Chamber of Deputies. Montecitorio becomes the last institutional barrier to stop this regulatory massacre and defend the right to life of wildlife.
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