Hunting: Abruzzo, controversy continues on the Hunting Calendar; Mauro Febbo against the regional councilor Pepe, “La hunting it has become a bargaining chip with the environmentalist world ”.
“The story of 2015 Hunting Calendar risks becoming, for the Abruzzo Region, the typical example of political and technical failure, attributable, without fear of denial, to wrong choices, even in the times they have determined, and that would be the minimum, not only enormous and irritating delays in its compilation and exit, required by law for June 15 and arrived 2 months late. But above all, they have generated problems such as to deserve a petty fool, summed up in the Ispra opinion that has just arrived and in the sudden backtracking of those who drafted the proposal. It is the umpteenth total defeat of the regional administration ”. This is the peremptory declaration of the president of the Supervisory Commission Mauro Febbo, who asks the regional councilor Dino Pepe "how does it feel to have proposed a hunting calendar completely massacred by an unfavorable Ispra opinion on 70% of the content and that irrefutable the region on passages that to define semi-professional would be an understatement ”.
"The most striking thing", explains the president, "concerns the Zpe with the widening of the constraints of the" area of stable presence of the bear ", the so-called C1 area, not only to the entire territory defined as" occasional presence - C2 ", but also to other areas subject to protection for the plantigrade including large territories such as the high Sangro plateau and territories falling within the municipalities of Anversa, Bugnara, Introdacqua Rocca Pia and Pettorano that were not previously included in the external protection zone of Park D 'Abruzzo ".
“On the merits, in the calendar proposal presented to Ispra - he continues - the Region has led some to believe that the hunt could be exercised by increasing the number of dogs for hunting hare and fox. None of this. After the opinion she went back by inserting many of the prescriptions present in the previous hunting calendars but the increase in the area object of protection for the bear was inserted. Today, in these territories, wild boar hunting is possible only with the “spin” technique and with an Enci-enabled dog ”. “Where will they find these dogs” asks Febbo “the teams of I strapped her who have seen this new prescription drop overnight? At least 2 years are required to qualify a dog. But above all we want to know one thing from Councilor Pepe: on the basis of which scientific data and which technical report has the new hunting area been re-measured for the protection of the bear by the Abruzzo region? ”.
“How will it be possible - he adds - to counteract the increase in wild boar in these areas? A species that not only creates problems for agricultural crops but is also a strong food competitor of the bear. We like to talk with the support of the papers and given that the attached technical report is devoid of any reference to the work of the ministerial table on Patom, we are more than convinced that what we asserted some time ago today is confirmed: the abandonment of the restricted technical table for hunting in Zpe it was voluntarily decided to hand over to the environmentalists all the decisions coming from the Ministry ”.
"These amateur maneuvers - explains Febbo - made possible by the absolute immobility of some smoke vendors who in the meantime have deluded all the foremen in the area that they would have come back, and implemented by the representatives of the Region sent to Rome with a report published in the site, which required phantom re-measurements of the Patom area already in May of this year, will be revealed when we read the reports, given that it seems absurd that in just over two months a regional councilor, without even the legitimacy, cancel a job that lasted years at the Ministry and which had led illustrious scientists to develop a model recognized also by ISPRA ”.
"By handing over to the environmentalists all the future of Patom - he then asserts - Pepe and the council have decreed, in entire territories of the Aquila area, the end of the traditional forms of Abruzzo hunting, they have blocked the possibility of practicing less impacting forms of sampling such as the mini hunted down and handed over the fate of management to the fundamentalist animal rights world. But that's not enough, they added the insult of the translation of the periods of the hunting activity to January: "double rip off" for both the bear and the hunters, most of those areas, in fact, are covered with snow in January, another month stolen from hunting for no reason ".
"To read the proposed calendar - he goes on - it seems as if the wild boar for the hare has been sold off, but to read the final calendar instead one is certain that the one who was screwed is only the harness hunter and that he has sold out panties as well. Someone will now have to explain it to the foremen of Sulmona and the Alto Sangro ”.
But there are also other questions from the Forza Italia councilor who in fact asks: "How is it possible that the Nature Conservation Office of the Abruzzo region, which deals with the investigation of environmental impact assessments on hunting calendars and which has always censored the proposals of the calendars launched by the Chiodi junta referring to the Ispra opinion, today he was even able to add to the blunder of the retrimetration of the Patom area, also the gem of the reintegration of the hunted with two dogs in January in the entire external protection area of the Parco d'Abruzzo, the most delicate area for the bear? The proposal is also published on the Region's website and has been heavily censored by Ispra ”.
“The Ispra fillet also appears - he continues - when he remembers what is meant by selection hunting. It seems to us that it is addressed to someone from Teramo who, without warning Pepe of the consequences, invented an opinion in the first version of the calendar on the selective slaughtering plans for wild boar, planned outside the calendar periods and intended to reduce damage to agricultural crops, not provided for by law, only to allocate to the provinces, which will soon disappear as a matter of competence, the choice of the forms of selection. Thus not only were the other provinces being massacred that did not follow the process of Teramo but they were taking on illegitimate powers. Pure madness for particular interests, then returned, since it was ridiculous ".
“What will the environmental and animal welfare associations do - concludes Febbo - also given the heavy provocation made to them by the Region with the hunting calendar, re-introducing the gadwall and the codon as huntable species that are of no hunting interest? It is a legitimate question because if it were to happen that no one wields it despite the blunders certified by the Ministry's Protection Institute with all the points in which one remains in default with respect to the opinion, we would have confirmation of the certainty gained last year: that hunting has become a bargaining chip with the environmentalist world, and therefore you can easily eliminate the hunt in the upper Sangro, you can invent wildlife corridors without comparison, just as you can also get to the perimeter of a park on the Chieti coast with maps of 100 Years ago".
(26 August 2015)
Source: AvezzanoInforma