Environmental platforms reject the new Madrid hunting and fishing law: “This is shooting, it is destroying populations”

Madrid is close to having its own autonomous law, the first of its kind for the sector in the history of the Community. The parliamentary processing of the text in the Assembly is still missing for the new regulation to come into force, with the expectation that it will be ready throughout 2026, but it has already sparked rejection from environmental organizations. María Ángeles Nieto, spokesperson for the Madrid Ecologist Platform, states that “the law was born without any type of” and that “it is written to satisfy the hunting sector.” In his opinion, the text does not implement measures that allow monitoring the . The Madrid Hunting Federation states that the new law is timely, as it updates the rule by which hunters are governed in Madrid, in force since 1970 and of a state nature.

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