REGIONAL HUNTING FEDERATION
The Hunting Federation of the Region criticizes that the central government does not have the sector for the drafting of the norm and fears for the survival of the hunting activity
The tiredness of Murcian hunters with the development of the Animal Welfare Law that is being processed at the state level is enormous, since, in his opinion, it seriously jeopardizes the future of hunting activity. The tension is also public and notorious in the rest of Spain, which has shown its total rejection of the regulatory text, which, as expected, may be underway before the end of the year.
The opposition of the hunting world not only focuses on some points included in the Law, but also on the fact that the Ministry of Social Rights, led by Ione Belarra (Podemos), did not see fit to have his opinion in the drafting of the rule. «At the beginning of the elaboration of this bill, no meetings were held with the Royal Spanish Hunting Federation nor with, at least, the Hunting Federation of the Region of Murcia; it does seem to be that with other conservationist entities and representatives of animal shelter centers, ”says Francisco Lozano, legal advisor to the FCRM, while requesting the withdrawal of this draft.
A vision shared by Francisco Martínez Ruiz, president of the Federated Hunting Society ‘El Jabalí’ de Mula, who alludes to the “very decisive weight of sectors totally opposed to hunting activity and that are supported by the Ministry of Social Rights” as the reason why the central government has excluded hunting in the drafting of this regulation. “We only have to see the heads of a Ministry and General Directorate to realize the anti-hunting pressure they exert on the central government (PSOE and Podemos), without of course caring about the thousands of direct and indirect jobs that would be affected. with the approval of this law and that would lead many sectors to the practical disappearance”, he laments.
The approval of the new text would suffocate armories, clothing stores, lodgings and preserves, according to the FCRM
critical sections
Among the points included in the standard and that unmitigatedly attack hunting activity, the comparison of claiming partridges, ferrets and falconry birds to domestic animals, as well as hunting dogs and rehalas regardless of their destination, stand out. and the prohibition of replacement breeding of hunting dogs, of sylvestrism and the making of documentaries in which the death of the animal is shown. “In other words, the hunting activity would suffer a significant setback,” says the legal adviser of the FCRM, while the president of ‘El Jabalí’ proposes that “the Government and affected sectors sit down, listen to each other and draft an Animal Welfare Law that collect and regulate the reality of all the actors involved and, of course, the real and objective need for ‘animal welfare’».
The Animal Welfare Law began its parliamentary process in the Congress of Deputies this summer. But the Spanish hunters have not stood idly by while waiting for the fatal blow to the hunting activity, so they have tied the blanket to their heads and have carried out different actions to show their unanimous disagreement.
One of the most representative samples was the massive demonstration held on March 20 in Madrid, where a total of 550,000 people from rural areas, of which 7,800 were hunters from Murcia, took over the central Paseo de la Castellana, with its more than six kilometers in length and its surrounding streets, to demand that the Government not prosper the Animal Welfare Law in the terms drafted. Faced with such pressure, the Socialist Parliamentary Group announced in August that it will present an amendment to exclude hunting dogs, those used by the National Police and those that care for and guide livestock from the rule. “We hope that the new demonstrations and amendments that the Government has sent us will become a reality,” Francisco Lozano confides.
Even so, he affirms that everything related to the Animal Welfare Law has a more important path: “It is expected that it will prevent the correct practice of hunting activity in some of its modalities”, and insists that it will fully affect everyone. the citizens. Because “it will imply the reduction not only of hunting licenses, but also of purchases in armories and clothing stores, lodging, restoration, leasing of preserves and even reduction of activity in intensive preserves,” he lists.
Strong defense of the animal kingdom
“Let there be no doubt that the hunting sector will always defend the welfare of animals and the proper treatment of them,” affirms Francisco Lozano, legal adviser to the FCRM, emphatically, to then also make it clear that “it is easily verifiable, in general terms, that the hunter collective assumes a responsibility over the auxiliary animals of the hunt duly exercised in relation to their care, health and animal welfare.
And he justifies it: «Dogs, calling partridges, falconry birds, singing birds… are essential for the exercise of hunting activity, consequently their well-being will determine their hunting possibilities. For this reason, their attention by the hunter collective is continuous and essential for the success of the activity».
#Common #front #hunters #Animal #Welfare #Law