2023-09-21 10:38:56
Updated Thursday, September 21, 2023 – 10:38
María Guardiola announces that since October population control has been enabled through hunting, without dogs and without profit motive
Mara Guardiola, president of the Government of Extremadura.WORLD
The strategic change announced by the president of the Government of Extremadura, Mara Guardiola, on the hunting use of the Monfrage national park, which enables population control through hunting and without profit, has had an immediate response from the Government of Spain. The acting minister of Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge, Teresa Riberahas responded to Guardiola herself on her Twitter account, reminding her that current regulations prohibit hunting activity in national parks and that the deadlines for the prohibition to come into force” were approved by Mariano Rajoy while wondering if “I don’t know if it refers to changes in the management plan, which must be compatible with the law and with everyone’s ok (agreement).”
The reply has also reached the minister from the new president of Extremadura: “We have announced that starting in October we will enable hunting activity in Monfrage. We fulfill our hunters and make a demand come true that the sector had been demanding for a long time.” In addition, it attaches information explaining that the Junta de Extremadura will allow hunting in Monfrage as a species control measure. The hunts, which have not been done since February 2021, will begin in October, will be without dogs and will be carried out by local hunters, belonging to the municipalities of Monfrage. With this measure, the regional government intends, says Mara Guardiola, achieve ecological balanceavoid damage to flora and fauna and protect livestock in the area from species such as wild boar, which can transmit tuberculosis and cause significant public health problems.
This Tuesday, the spokesperson for the Board, Victoria Bazaga, insisted that the use of hunting for population control of species and without commercial purposes in Monfrage is permitted by the National Parks Law and, therefore, The regional executive does not incur “any illegality” by authorizing hunting activity in this natural enclave.
Since December 2020, with the government of Pedro Sánchez, national parks became land prohibited from hunting, according to the provisions of Law 30/2014 on National Parks, and were prohibited by the Ministry of Ecological Transition and Challenge. Demographic sport fishing, recreational fishing and both sport and commercial hunting.
Bazaga has pointed out today that Teresa Ribera, was “badly advised” when this past Monday he warned the Extremaduran government that the legislation prohibits hunting activity in national parks. “Our rules allow us to use hunting when it has no commercial or personal purpose and to avoid major catastrophes, such as the expansion of some of the species,” said the spokesperson for the Board, to insist that in this case “The minister was not well advised and has told what she believed,” defended Bazaga, who added that it is not a practice that is carried out in Extremadura for the first time, while it is used in “other national parks.” “.
For his part, the president of the Vox Parliamentary Group, ngel Pelayo Gordillo, described as “very positive” the measure to once again allow hunting in Monfrage for the control of certain species, which “Vox has promoted.”
“It was one old demand of hunters and that will entail a more rational management of hunting in Mofrage and of the management of the park itself,” he highlighted.
Gordillo considers that this measure “It has been adopted precisely because Vox is part of the government and it is one of the conditions that were agreed upon”, which was “the promotion and improvement of hunting, of the hunting sector”, after which he assessed that the Minister of Forest Management and Rural World, which Vox holds on the Board of Extremadura, “is doing its job well.”
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