ROME—The main Italian airline, ITA Airways, proudly publicizes its assist of the marketing campaign #NotInMyWorld of the worldwide animal safety charity Humane Society International/Europe. The airline has adopted a new corporate policy that prohibits the transportation of searching trophies on all firm flights, each as cargo and as passenger baggage. This stands as a major testomony to the Company’s dedication to wildlife conservation, in addition to a considerable contribution to ending trophy searching and fostering business practices that acknowledge the worldwide group’s duty for biodiversity safety.
Hundreds of hundreds of animals globally, together with endangered and threatened species, are killed by trophy hunters for amusement and boasting, contributing to the decline of untamed populations, conservation challenges, and inhumane practices. Unlike subsistence searching, the first motivation for these engaged on this exercise is to kill animals for competitors and leisure, focusing on uncommon or extremely sought-after animals for his or her bodily traits (thick manes, lengthy tusks, total measurement, and many others.) and turning them into trophies for show to showcase success in searching. Considering {that a} vital variety of trophy hunters who ebook abroad searching journeys intend to move their macabre souvenirs again home, the transportation sector performs a key position in facilitating this ethically questionable and dangerous business.
On a nationwide stage, ITA Airways’ dedication holds specific significance since Italy ranks among the many main importers of searching trophies in Europe. Between 2014 and 2021, 442 searching trophies from mammals protected underneath CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species) have been imported, together with hippos, rhinos, elephants, and lions. These knowledge reveal the nation’s energetic involvement within the trophy searching business, regardless of a survey indicating that 86% of Italians oppose this apply, with 74% supporting a legislative ban on trophy imports.
By becoming a member of the marketing campaign, ITA Airways has taken a number of measures together with:
- Addition of searching trophies to the checklist of prohibited objects: ITA Airways has expanded the checklist of prohibited objects for transportation in each passenger baggage and cargo, expressly together with searching trophies. This clear prohibition ensures that such objects will not be accepted on ITA Airways flights.
- Online publication of the coverage: The searching trophy coverage has been printed on the ITA Airways’ official web site, offering transparency and accessibility to the brand new directives. This step displays the Company’s dedication to open and accountable communication.
- Update of operational manuals for cargo and floor procedures: ITA Airways has reviewed and up to date its operations manuals, guaranteeing that the brand new provisions concerning searching trophies are absolutely built-in into cargo procedures and floor operations.
- Dissemination of the coverage to employees, hubs, and suppliers: The new coverage has been disseminated in any respect ranges of the Company, together with flight and floor employees, in addition to suppliers and hubs the place the airline operates. This dissemination ensures full understanding and adherence to the brand new provisions concerning searching trophies.
Giovanna Di Vito, ITA Airways’ chief program workplace, ESG & Customer Operations, emphasizes “Our firm support for Humane Society International/Europe’s campaign to stop the import of hunting trophies into Italy and Europe reflects ITA Airways’ ongoing commitment to the planet, our country, and communities. Our Company’s new policy, which formalizes a ban on the carriage of hunting trophies on its flights, is a concrete action, our contribution to the protection of wildlife and the promotion of that protection. Indeed, we believe that companies have a key role in supporting and spreading ethical practices that represent real progress toward a more responsible and sustainable future.”
Martina Pluda, director of Humane Society International/Europe in Italy, states: “ITA Airways’ support to our campaign and their new policy represent a highly significant contribution to the goal of ending cruel trophy hunting. In fact, the corporate sector also plays a huge role in the collective action necessary to protect threatened wildlife globally. With HSI/Europe’s #NotInMyWorld campaign, we continue to strengthen our commitment to the preservation of endangered animal species and flora and for the introduction of bans on import, export and re-export of hunting trophies from protected animals in Italy and Europe.”
In addition to ITA Airways, an growing variety of airways, cargo operators, and transport corporations worldwide have adopted company insurance policies towards the transportation of searching trophies. Please go to hsi.org/trophy-free-transport for an summary of all transport corporations.
Visit the new ITA Airways corporate policy
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Media contact:
- HSI/Europe: Eva-Maria Heinen, communications & PR supervisor for HSI in Italy and Germany: [email protected]; 3338608589
- ITA Airways: Pietro Caldaroni, Head of Communication and Institutional relations; [email protected]
