The images of the hunt last December of the firstborn son of the US president, his partner and his friends in an Italian protected lagoon, has caused the outrage of a good part of civil society and some political parties Like the green.
The controversy will also reach the Italian Parliament
The video broadcast by US and Italian media – which is being a reason for controversy in the Parliament of Rome – shows Donald Trump Jr. hunting protected birds in the famous Lagoon of Venice (Unesco World Heritage since 1987), and later doing Count of your “trophies.” Reasons why the greens have presented A petition for the Minister of Environment and Energy Security, Gilberto Pichetto Fratin, to go to explanations to the Parliament of Rome.
The images of Trump Jr.’s duck hunting have been criticized in the Regional Council of the Veneto by the Regional Deputy of Europe Green. Andrea Zanoni denounces that the video is very probable was filmed in Valle Pirimpie (Campagna Lupia), “an area protected by European regulations and that is part of Natura 2000 of the EU, as a special conservation zone.”
In one of the frames, Donald Trump is seen describing his trophies: the folded ducks. Among them, a marriage (Tadorana Ferrugginea), un very rare duck throughout Europe of almost completely orange oxide color and a protected species throughout Europe by the EU Bird Directive and, of course, by Italian law “, that” in its article 30 sanctions its sacrifice and retention. “The deputy also recalls that hunting is prohibited for non -residents and that the killing of protected species is a crime in Italy.
Experts have been warning that The green lungs of the Venice lagoon are in danger because the absorption of carbon dioxide in that area proportionally diminished to the loss of green areas.
