Italien – 26. 04. 2025

The Italian government against wildlife

11.06.2025

The Italian government is planning a significant softening of nature conservation law. Agriculture Minister Francesco Lollobrigida, a passionate hunter, has presented comprehensive changes to the hunting legislation. The right-wing government wants to authorise the trapping of wild birds with nets in order to use them as live decoys. Currently, bird trapping is completely prohibited, and the use of decoys is only permitted for hunting seven species. In future, decoys will be allowed to be used to hunt all 47 huntable bird species. Our Italian members are joining forces with nature conservation organisations across Italy to prevent the proposed changes. Today, we have published a video in which critical voices from the nature conservation community have their say and call on Parliament to vote against the plans.