The protection body of the protected area replies to the councilor “Rufus” Bristot and to the forristi: “Instrumental controversy on canyoning, it was already forbidden”
BELLUNO. «We need to open a reflection on the theme of rescue to wildlife, a subject of great emotion but which also involves several legal aspects. And paradoxically, it also seems ugly to say so, in irrecoverable cases euthanasia is the best solution to avoid suffering for the animal ».
Franco De Bon, provincial councilor in charge of hunting and fishing, was an agent of the provincial police for thirty years. “We have to make a philosophical effort,” says De Bon, “to understand that wild animals must be managed at the level of the population, not of individuals. Unfortunately, at the level of individuals, some animals die, due to old age, by accident, by surplus as in the case of wild boars, but the public administration must take care of the correct conservation of the entire population. It is not through the rescue of a specimen that a population is saved, but through the maintenance of the territory, to offer, for example, the possibility of finding a safe refuge for animals. If there are no suitable habitats, the animals disappear, it is a law of nature ».
Thus euthanasia, killing, Franco De Bon suggests, should not be considered taboo words. “In thirty years of service I have never found anyone who, after hitting a roe deer, did not ask me to save it. I also happened to see three people around an overwhelmed and injured deer, and no one based on the driver who was injured. But the animals are not those of the cartoons: while caressing a wounded roe deer thinking of giving him relief, he is instead scaring to death, because in nature such close contact between such different species is only when one attacks the other. . When we captured wild animals for radio collars, the first rule was to put a mask over their eyes, otherwise they could die of a heart attack from stress ».sdb