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The owners and administrators of Herdade da Torre Bela, the Azambuja farm where a “mount” took place on December 17, where 540 animals were sacrificed, guaranteed this Thursday that they had no responsibility or knowledge of the hunting organization that motivated the sacrifice of more than five hundred animals.
Farm officials say in a statement just to have known the facts “as a result and only through social communication “, repudiating “form wrong, illegitimate and abusive“How the” mountain “went. Thus, they deny having had any direct or indirect participation in a massacre that some local forces – political and hunting – related to the desire to “remove large animals” from the farm, assumed in a project to transform the Farm into a central . photovoltaic system under study.
The guarantees and criticisms were made through an official statement, which was shared with the Observer. In the statement, those responsible for the farm, whose identity is still unknown, claim to be “from the first moment in working closely and permanently with the competent authorities in order to fully clarify what happened and fully determine the responsibilities.” And they guarantee to reserve the right to “adopt the appropriate judicial measures” so that the farm is “compensated for all the losses caused by this unfortunate event.”
Herdade da Torre Bela was not the operator of that hunt neither organized nor participated in it, directly or indirectly, and therefore has no responsibility for what happened. It is unequivocal that the group of hunters has widely exceeded the acquired hunting rights, exceeding the limits agreed by contract with the operator and that they are in line with what is allowed by the hunting zone license that was in force as of the effective date “, points out. property managers.
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Following the news of the hunt in Azambuja, Jacinto Amaro, from the Portuguese Hunting Federation, had linked the case to the desire to transform the property into a mega photovoltaic plant with more than 750 hectares. Speaking to Rádio Observador, Jacinto Amaro said: “I understand that the owner… was not what he wanted to do, possibly. He wanted to get rid of the animals because he wanted to start another project on his property ”.
If you wanted to get rid of the animals, you had several ways to make your farm profitable. We do not accept that, to carry out a transformation in his farm house, he used this process, which to me was nothing more than wild ingenuity. He could have sold the animals, if they are too many. He tried to hunt them down because in addition to the value of the meat, what I heard was that each hunter paid 3,000 euros for each position in the forest. And that is why I wanted to make a cash flow of more than 400 thousand euros in addition to the value of the meat ”, accused Jacinto Amaro.
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Azambuja’s own PSD, an opposition force in the local authority, had established a relationship between the slaughter of animals and the property transformation project under study. In a statement, the Azambuja Social Democrats accused: “The objective of this massive elimination is obvious: to clean the territory for the placement of more than 638 thousand photovoltaic panels! In pursuit of this same objective, 540 animals were sacrificed in open, walled terrain and without vegetation ”.
Despite acknowledging that the promoters of the hunt and the owners of the farm are different, in statements to the Observer the councilor of the PSD, Rui Corça, linked the cleaning of animals carried out on the Torre Bela farm to photovoltaic projects. He even said that before the hunt there was eucalyptus slaughter, that habitat the animals that died last week.
On the complaint that the hunt was linked to the project of a photovoltaic plant on the property, the Minister of the Environment, Matos Fernandes, also spoke. The minister began by talking about the apparent relationship between the two things without denying it, highlighting only that “what the environmental impact study [do projeto de criação de uma grande central fotovoltaica na herdade] He says is that a part of these animals must be removed from there. But to remove is not to sacrifice ”.
This Wednesday night, the minister ended up announcing the suspension of the environmental impact study, precisely because of the doubts surrounding the link between the slaughter of animals in this “mountain” with the project.
The Minister of the Environment suspends the environmental impact study of Quinta da Torre Bela
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