Hunting In Calabria. “The Calabrian hunters thank you. They thank the Prime Minister Matteo Renzi and the Minister of the Environment Gian Luca Galletti for having, with superficial reasons and widely denied by scientific results produced by the individual Regions and Calabria in particular, re-adopted authoritarian and oppressive measures aimed at imposing the early closure of the hunting season to some species such as Song Thrush, Cesena and Beccaccia.
They thank the Council of the Calabria Region which, despite having five years of scientifically valid data on the beginning of the pre-nuptial migration of the Bottaccio Thrush and which in recent years has allowed the Authority to legitimately set the date of January 31 as the closing of the hunting season. for this species, for the second consecutive year, it supinely adhered to the absurd diktat of the Renzi government, anticipating with its own resolution the closure of hunting for this species.
In fact, they thank the Regional Council of Calabria which, despite having initiated a complete defense of its decisions at the government offices, then wished to differentiate itself from other Regional Administrations that acted consistently with their own legitimate decisions, challenging the provision of the Presidency of the Council or simply leaving it to implement the substitute powers. Coherence that rewarded the Liguria Region with the suspension of the government provision for its hunting calendar sanctioned by the Regional Administrative Court.
And yes that for speed and efficiency the institution has so far shone in the negative. Suffice it to say that it took twelve months (net of settlement times) for the five Commissions for the qualification exams to be appointed, mortifying and trampling the legitimate expectations of both the candidates and the economic operators of the sectors concerned and that the resources paid by the hunters, these confiscated with great diligence, lie unused to the detriment of the faunal-environmental management of the entire territory.
These Hunting Associations, on the basis of government acts of inadmissible authoritarian imprint, invite hunters to a serious and careful reflection on the effects of centralization of powers related to the constitutional reforms just launched and on which we will be called to express ourselves in the expected popular referendum. They also communicate the continuation of all the actions already undertaken against the Calabria Region including the administrative dispute initiated last year at the TAR Calabria against the resolution to anticipate the hunting season for the Bottaccio Thrush ".
The Regional Managers of the Hunting Associations: Italian Federation of Hunting, National Free Hunting Association, Enalcaccia, ArciCaccia, ANUU, Italcaccia and EPS.
(February 8, 2016)