There has been intense mobilization in the hunting ranks in recent days.
The occasion is the large protest rally planned for Wednesday, October 18 in Paralimni, which is expected to take on the dimensions of a mass rally against the new exhaustive legislation on hunting and poaching.
The rally will take place in Agios Georgios Square in Paralimni and is organized by the "Famagusta-Demanding Movement", thus implementing the promise made by the protesting hunters for the establishment of a political movement.
A statement from the movement said, "Hunting is not a retrograde barbarity, a cowardly externalization of a violent character, an instinct of subhumans, a primitive destructive behavior and a manifestation of lethal instinct, but a fixed principle of hunting and not the principle of perpetuity." of extinction. ”
The announcement goes on to say that "the hunter respects the natural environment, because he knows it better than anyone and lives in it. The hunter is neither a "killer" nor a "criminal". He is a citizen with rights and obligations. "
The statement also said that "these notions have been misunderstood by a number of anti-hunters and ecologists, who are officially permanent hunters, without publicly stigmatizing and counteracting the actual destruction of the natural environment, wildlife and its own." end-of-life analysis, such as environmental pollution, chemical waste, uncontrolled use of pesticides, forest fires and landscaping. ”
The Famagusta-Claimant Movement clarifies that hunting organizations and their members have been set up and targeted for a purpose, to hunt to be found in nature, to hunt some prey and to eat them with friends and enemies. Enemies, it is said, "are the only ones who can't or don't want to understand the destination of rational and equine beings yet, the ones who can't tell the natural values, the social values and the traditions, the ones you show them the moon and they insist on looking at the finger! ”
The "Famagusta-Demand Movement" in its announcement clarifies that it is claiming:
- Equal rights with other European hunters,
- Correction of provisions in the existing law on the protection of wild birds and game, such as the specified and permitted number of dogs, the stored prey in refrigerators, etc.
- Legalization of the exile as a Cultural Heritage,
- Fair determination of space and time of training dogs (3 months in dead areas and 9 months territory with 5 dogs)
- Equal outreach services in all cities,
- Combating endemic poaching,
- Statement that CABS activists become undesirable in Cyprus,
- Correction of provisions in the recent law on hunting (proportionality).
Source: Famagusta.News