| ANSE sent a complaint against a company that captures wild animals for allegedly carrying out illegal trapping of foxes in areas with damage by rabbits | The Association has already warned of the risks that the recovery of the vermin would pose to biodiversity, but the Autonomous Community legalized trapping through the back door.The Association of Southeast Naturalists has sent a complaint against a company for alleged various irregularities in the trapping of wild animals that were also posted on social networks and on the YouTube channel.Specifically, a video, which was removed from the channel after the ANSE investigation began, shows the capture and death of a fox using live prey and self-propelled ropes.
The captures were made in agricultural areas where rabbit damage has been claimed.
This fact contravenes both the homologation of the trap (which does not allow the use of live prey) and the Seventh point.
Verification of damage of the RESOLUTION OF APRIL 30, 2020 that prevents fox hunting where there is damage by rabbits, with the intention of restoring the ecological balance.This is not the only irregularity detected, since other examples of capturing wandering dogs and foxes using the same device and using live baits appear on the company's YouTube channel.
In addition, there are other complaints from environmental agents against that company for various breaches of the damage control regulations.
For this reason and taking into account the antecedents of sanctions in hunting the accused, the Association has requested the precautionary closure of the exploitation.It should be remembered that in 2018, the Association warned that the authorization of the trapping was only going to pose a problem and a risk for biodiversity and that it entailed the return of the figure of the vermin, as the capture of predators would be prioritized over restitution of the ecological balance of the fields of the Region.Unfortunately, the Autonomous Community of the Region of Murcia has been decisively supporting the development of trapping by organizing courses and promoting such activity that Law 42/2007 only considers as possible, in the meantime, the regulatory and planning framework of hunting activity (established by the Hunting Law 7/2003) drags a notable delay.Due to the difficulties in approving the Predator Control Decree (still pending), the Autonomous Community resorted in a tortuous way to the Resolution of damage control in agriculture to introduce predator trapping through the back door when the objective of the resolution was to control rabbit damage.For this and other reasons, ANSE, representing the rest of the environmental organizations of the Murcia Region, left the River Hunting and Fishing Advisory Council tired of the pressure exerted by the hunting and fish farming sectors to the detriment of the conservation of natural values .