A position of strong opposition
What has happened recently in the field of Hunting Policy is truly incredible. The friends of Arci Caccia, who felt belittled by not being included in the National Hunting and Wildlife Committee, they immediately expressed a stance of strong opposition, comparable to a "Let Samson die with all the Philistines" statement, and appealed to the Regional Administrative Court, throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Granted, for the sake of argument, that the sensational and unexpected rebirth of the National Wildlife Hunting Committee—inactive and effectively suppressed for nine years, from 2014 to 2023—can truly be considered dirty water and a disaster for Italian hunting and hunters.
The reality of the facts
The facts show that every initiative and every result achieved by the current government—of which we are certainly not the claque—indeed, when there has been reason to criticize, we have done so without hesitation and without mincing words—seems to arouse a certain unease and discontent among a significant segment of the left; the same segment that for over thirty years, that is, since the conception and subsequent promulgation of Law 157/92, has supported, or at least not opposed, a political line that is certainly not favorable to the Italian hunting community. Today, however, we have a moral obligation to thank and strongly support Minister Lollobrigida, the ministry, and the entire government for having succeeded in this "desperate" undertaking, and we are ready to undertake and support any initiative aimed at defending this composition, which is truly democratic and functional for the hunting community.
Small vested interests
We finally have a streamlined and efficient Committee, perfectly aligned with the much-vaunted streamlining of institutions and structures, profoundly different from the old bureaucratic juggernaut of the past, which is opposed solely because it impinges on petty vested interests. Now the Council of State has decided to refer back to the Constitutional Court part of the first article of the 2023 budget law, by virtue of which the Minister of Agriculture was finally able to reconstitute the "dormant" CTFVN. The friends of Arci Caccia can legitimately celebrate the victory of this anachronistic rearguard skirmish, but are they truly sure they are serving the best interests of Italian hunters? And are they sure that this war will be understood and shared by those who, after so many years, can finally count on such an important body? Perhaps, with hindsight, they will be forced to do as Pyrrhus did, who, according to tradition, said: "Another victory like this and we are lost" (Paolo Sparvoli, president of the National Free Hunting Association).
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