A macromontería in the Sierra de Córdoba with 450 killed specimens ignites the controversy: "It was an orgy of blood and death"

"It was an orgy of blood and death in the wire empire."

The images of some

, most of them deer and boars killed and bloodied exposed on the ground, perfectly aligned like trophies in numerous rows after a hunt was held at the

estate in

, has sparked controversy and, in many cases the indignation, with respect to this hunting modality.

In addition, it has reopened the debate on the ethical limits of this big game hunting activity that was held last weekend and that had legal authorization for its development, as confirmed by the

(RFEC).

Its president,

, although he clarifies that the commercial hunting that is carried out on private farms (such as this one) does not correspond as an activity to his federation, he points out that "it is necessary due to the overabundance of specimens."

The great hunt was carried out by some

in an area of ​​more than

, within a perimeter fenced area, where the hunts are a true reference for hunters within a pasture land, with a large amount of mount and demanding slopes, a privileged place, highly valued and a focus of attraction for hunters, who usually pay significant amounts for their participation, this time around 1,000 euros per shotgun.

As reported by the portal 'Cordopolis', the farm belonged to the construction company Prasa and would now be in the hands of BBVA after a foreclosure, being for sale on the real estate portal Haya.es.

"It is the day-to-day life of most of the fenced farms in

, but also throughout

, with some 500,000 fenced hectares,

,

or the Levante area", highlights Joaquín Reina, coordinator of the

, which has branded this latest episode as an "orgy of blood and death."

For its part, the

defends that this activity was "legal" because it had all the permits in order, but also "necessary" to maintain the balance of the environment" and "control of the species". Thus,

assures that overexploitation has a very negative impact on livestock, so "as many animals as are necessary to maintain the environment are killed", he clarifies. In this sense, he considers that the controversy should not focus on the number of animals killed and stresses that the exhibition of the pieces on the ground and ordered is due to compliance with health regulations, such as waste management, veterinary control or the evisceration of carcasses and the use of meat for sale.

On the contrary,

emphasizes that, under normal conditions, it would be impossible to kill so many animals in a single day of hunting on an open farm, at most "300 specimens between deer and wild boar", unless what is it is intended to hunt.

Hence, he considers that the events developed in

they correspond to land that is completely "fenced around its entire perimeter" and "where the only defense of large game species, escape, is absolutely diminished and conditioned by a wire barrier".

These are farms, privately owned, "managed from a productivist approach, where the hunting fence is the essential infrastructure that allows this type of management, more typical of a livestock activity than the use of a renewable natural resource."

For the president of the RFEC, the images may be "bloody and shocking" but he clarifies that it is necessary to look at "what exists behind them, in this case it was very selective as there were too many copies and therefore it was necessary to maintain a balance between the own species and other animals with which it can act so that there is no transmission of diseases".

underlines that hunting is essential for the conservation of species and also provides a social, cultural, environmental and economic resource, generating "more than

, especially in rural areas". In this sense, he adds that most of the hunted species have an outlet to the market from the point of view of the sale of large game meat, especially to Europe, with a commercial balance that rises to about 400 million euros.

Part of the shot specimens.ECOLOGISTS IN ACTION

THE FENCES

Environmentalists criticize the barrier effect caused by management fences is what allows owners to artificially increase the densities of wild ungulates, favoring the so-called

.

In addition, the existence of a management fence in a large game farm facilitates the control of possible illegal introductions of game species;

another incentive for the pro-hunting fences: "Not only does it allow artificially raising the census but also the inclusion of species such as fallow deer, roe deer or mouflon and the "for which a hunting application is needed which in most cases is not requested", according to Reina, "

For

, the images of the hunt in

do not represent "an exceptional event, moreover, it is the general trend for decades with the approval of a cowed and dedicated environmental administration, in the face of the enormous economic power that gathers around the great proprietors of the main bounded areas of big game hunting in Spain".

In addition, Reina explains that in many cases females are artificially inseminated with semen from deer brought from Central European countries, which are more physically endowed, to obtain more valuable specimens as they are more corpulent and have more antlers, for which pay a lot more to shoot them down.

On the other hand, this environmental association denounces that this type of hunting sessions in which

, "reveals the scarce and deficient technical control, in this case, by the Territorial Delegation of Sustainable Development of the Board of Andalusia".

UNTENABLE

The ecologists consider that the hunting activity has shown itself "as an unsustainable activity that is not capable of guaranteeing, through an

and good condition of the wild species that are the object of exploitation, contributing to lead several of them to critical situations, such as the red partridge".

In this sense,

emphasizes the "numerous negative impacts caused by hunting fences in the natural environment, such as the fragmentation of natural spaces, conditioning the mobility and use of the territory for numerous species of wildlife, including protected species."

He also supposes, in his opinion, an impact on the vegetation, at the time of construction, and, later, as a consequence of the excessive pressure on the vegetation due to the high densities that are usually reached in fenced estates. .

Finally, it highlights "the frequent collisions with the easements established and recognized by current regulations. Numerous public channels and paths continue to be cut off by hundreds of kilometers of hunting fences that have turned territories as extensive as

into an authentic swarm of obstacles, in the empire of the wire".

For all these reasons,

has demanded that the Ministry of Agriculture withdraw the project for the National Game Management Strategy -whose period for public consultation ended last day 2- "due to defects in substance and form" and criticizes that for its drafting "only groups of interest those linked to hunting pressure groups".

"We only have public denunciation and social awareness," they denounce.

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