Ecologists in Action assures that several hunters, accompanied by members of the Junta de Castilla y León, shot and killed a male roe deer in an area affected by the fire
Ecologists in Action has denounced that the Junta de Castilla y León has allowed and supervised the killing of a roe deer in the Sierra de la Culebra (Zamora), after the fires have devastated that game reserve affected by two fires that have jointly burned some 56,500 hectares.
The environmental organization has detailed that on July 23or almost twenty people who were observing the fauna witnessed the hunting of a roe deer in the municipality of Folgoso de la Carballedawithin the limits of the Sierra de la Culebra, a space included in the Meseta Ibérica biosphere reserve.
The group saw how several hunters who were accompanied by personnel from the Environment they shot and killed a male roe deer in an area located one kilometer from the edge of the area affected by the fire.
Ecologists in Action has considered “very serious” that this hunt has been allowed for the “important mortality of fauna” as a result of the fires.
For this reason, he has opined that killing roe deer in the area is “an inconsistency” because it will slow down the recovery of the species.
According to his calculations, cervids have been affected “hugely” by the fire and there may have been several hundreds of specimens burned, injured or that have lost their habitat.
In addition, he has branded “shameful” that the staff of the Castilla and leon meeting you have spent your time to “guide the hunters to shoot down roe deer” instead of devoting it to other urgent tasks, such as “checking the areas burned in recent days in search of injured animals or providing food for the fauna”.
For Ecologists in Action, what happened is a “absolute discredit of the hunting activity that, lacking moral principles, reflects its incoherent way of acting”.
In this regard, the environmental organization has criticized the fact that hunters have publicized the donation of feeders and waterers to help the fauna that has survivedand on the other hand, some act “unceremoniously and without any ethics” by shooting down a specimen after a “catastrophe” such as the fires that have devastated the area.