The long-awaited dates
It opens there new hunting season and like every year, the period preceding the opening was full of controversy and false promises, the outcome of which we already knew, pre-opening to the suspended turtle dove and the uncertainty until September 24th whether woodcock and thrushes will be huntable until January 31st, in defiance of the political acrobats supported by some hunting associations who, shouting "more times and species", now lash out against anyone who disagrees with their populist demagogy, even against the Region itself that accepted their requests. The letter from the "hunter-friendly government" inviting the Regions not to include the turtle dove among the huntable species for 2024, says a lot about what would have happened in the event of an appeal.
Biodiversity conservation
The time has come to open a new phase for modern and sustainable hunting, which leaves the past behind and looks to the future. The need to conserve biodiversity that we are reminded of every day, cannot but involve the hunting world, we must be the ones to promote the correct implementation of management plans for species in decline, demand from politics that the resources that Europe makes available for the conservation of habitats and fauna are actually used, that the management plans of SIC and SPA, for which several million Euros have already been spent, are correctly implemented, also with the help of the hunting world. Only in this way will we be able to rebuild a relationship with society and with the environmentalist world, which today is seen as the enemy to be fought and not as a possible ally.
Good luck
We must be the ones to promote the conservation of those huntable species and not only, which today are in decline and it is clear to everyone, we owe it to our passion and above all to our children. Being hunters today, is not just taking up a rifle and shooting, but it means acquiring an awareness that fauna is a renewable but not infinite resource, having the perception that many species are in difficulty not certainly due to hunting pressure, but due to the continuous loss of habitat that human activities have caused in the last half century. Despite this, we have arrived at the day of the general opening, we live our passion in compliance with the rules, only if we are careful hunters, custodians of fauna and the environment, we can build a future. Good luck to everyone (The Regional President of Arci Caccia Umbria – Bennati Emanuele).
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