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The National Association of Rural Owners – Game Management and Biodiversity (known by the acronym ANPC) confirmed to TSF that it had sold 550 hunting stamps to Quinta da Torre Bela. The invoice, to which the Express had access, and which is dated January 23, accredits the purchase by the owner of Torre Bela from ANPC of 500 stamps for deer slaughter and 50 stamps for wild boar. Last weekend 540 deer and wild boar were slaughtered on that farm in Azambuja.
However, to Expresso, a source from Quinta da Torre Bela guarantees that none of these 550 stamps acquired in January from ANPC – which is one of the three top-level hunting organizations – were used in the hunt carried out by 16 Spanish hunters in what is one of the largest walled properties in Europe.
Expresso knows that 40 deer stamps and 65 wild boar stamps were sacrificed, all acquired before January, from the owners of Torre Bela to Avelino Carvalho, to whom the farm gave the hunting rights. And finally it was for the Spaniards of Monteros de La Cabra, who organized the hunt. That makes a total of 105 seals, a number far fewer than the 540 deer and wild boar slaughtered by Spanish hunters.
To complicate the accounts, another source reveals that there are 270 stamps placed on the animals slaughtered in that mountain that would have been sold by ANPC. Since Torre Bela now denies it.
The GNR and the Institute for the Conservation of Nature and Forests (ICNF), which this Tuesday were carrying out negotiations with the owners of Torre Bela, are investigating where and how the Spanish hunters acquired the stamps, whose checks were delivered to authorities.
Expresso also knows that the corpses of the animals slaughtered in Azambuja were sent to Badajoz.
This mountain in which 540 animals died was the only mountain this hunting season in Quinta da Torre Bela. A “massacre” that was unanimously criticized – from the Minister of the Environment, José Matos Fernandes, to the various hunter associations. One of the measures presented by the minister and the ICNF was to declare a ban on hunting on that property in Azambuja. The case is in the hands of the Public Ministry.
