The New Hunters Society of Lanzarote denies the "inopportune and malicious words" uttered by the tenant and worker of the Finca del Morro de Chibusque. As La Voz published last June, the citizen went to the newspaper to report the "death threats" of a hunter on his farm. In addition, now the worker has asked the Island Council to exclude his farm with "urgency" from the hunting area.
A testimony with which the Hunters Society of the island explains that it is "criminalizing all hunters in a general way." In addition, they are also against closing the training camp for hunting dogs (podencos and pointers), in the place called El Lajiar de Juan Bello, in San Bartolomé. They defend that "the approximate total area of said training field is 2,101,000.00 square meters and that only the leased plot has approximately 110,000.00 square meters, not reaching 5.25% of the total area."
"We think it is a lack of respect to demagogue towards our group"
"We think it is a lack of respect to demagogue towards our group. Considering that the hunting practice is a wildlife use, a recreational-sports activity, it is very important for the physical fitness of dogs, a source of work and income, a new tourist attraction and that it is widely extended, accepted and practiced by a significant number of more than 1,200 hunters throughout the island," they said.
Finally, they point out that hunting activity in Lanzarote is of a "great popular tradition to small game hunting, especially rabbit hunting with ferret (Oryctolaguscuniculus) and Barbary partridge (Alectotorisbarbara)." "A
tradition with a lot of cultural and social roots, hunting with the Canarian hound, ferrets on ancient and new lava flows and badlands. It is a very unique and unique hunt that makes that combination between the hound dogs, ferrets and hunter spectacular. Lanzarote has an important projection in the Canary archipelago, and due to the agro-environmental values it demonstrates, it can become a future economic-tourist alternative and complementary to other agronomic uses of the island," they concluded.
