Hunting: Cuneo, Coldiretti leaves the Alpine District CA CN 6 and ATC CN 5 because the problems that have plagued this area for years have not yet been able to find a solution.
Coldiretti Cuneo withdraws its representatives from the Alpine District CA CN 6 (Monregalesi valleys) and from the Territorial Hunting Area ATC CN 5 (Cortemilia) since the problems of territorial management have been unsolved for years despite the requests and solicitations of the Organization to Presidents and Management Committees. Marcello Gatto and Bruno Rivarossa - president and director of Coldiretti Cuneo - say - “Our decision is the result of an objective evaluation of the management results of the territory. Our representatives do not come from all the ATC and CA of the province, but from those who for years have not solved the problems of the imbalance between the presence of game, wild boar and roe deer in particular, with respect to the tolerability of the territory and agriculture in particular. In any case, the attention of the Organization, both where you stay and where you leave, will always be at the highest levels. We need to avoid that our companies are hostage to a wicked management of the territory to safeguard the interests of the shop ”. Continuing from Coldiretti they state, "We are witnessing and we have witnessed the almost total failure, both in the CA CN 6 and in the ATC CN 5, of the management of the territory with respect to the normal compatibility of the presence of game with agriculture. In recent years we have received many promises only to see, with the behavior of the hunting teams, the exact opposite. Excursions outside the hunting season with the aim of moving the wild boars and not killing them, continuous boycotts of the cages to capture the wild boars. We also denounce that, in the ATC and CA Management Committees in question, the overwhelming majority of the members are hunters and behave accordingly without considering the objective problems of the territory that go well beyond the hunting activity ".
Adds Cesare Gilli - area secretary of Alba and Cortemilia - “In the ATC CN 5 out of 19 members 13 are hunters, 3 of which are expressed by the Local Authorities (Municipalities - Mountain Community), 1 by the Agricultural Associations and 4 by the Environmental Associations. While we believe it is normal that the 5 representatives of the Hunting Associations are exponents of the hunting world, it is not normal that hunters have been appointed among the representatives of the sector associations and local authorities. Furthermore, our proposals contained in a document presented to the Council were not taken into consideration, requesting the rotation of the teams on the territory, the maximum facilitation of hunting for the single hunter, the elimination of the number of maximum teams on the territory, as well as the reduction of the minimum number of components for the constitution of a team ".
Massimo Meineri - area secretary of Mondovì and Ceva specifies - "Of the 20 members designated in the CA CN 6, 15 are hunters and only 5 are not. 3 representatives of the Local Authorities are hunters as are obviously the 6 representatives of the Hunting Associations. But 3 representatives out of 6 appointed by the Agricultural Associations are also hunters (the 3 non-hunters are designated by Coldiretti). Among the 4 representatives of environmental protection 3 are hunters and only 1 is not ”.
In a recent meeting held at the Coldiretti of Mondovì, the Organization has set up a working group where the agricultural entrepreneurs, the Managers of the Ceva and Mondovì areas are present, a representation of the agricultural companies most affected by the raids of wild boars and some Mayors representing the territory. The goal is to continue to monitor the complex problem of damage caused by game to agricultural crops, prevent the numerous road accidents and to be a moment of force and pressure towards the institutions so that the possible measures are adopted without hesitation.
"The umpteenth attempt - concluded Gatto and Rivarossa - to solve a problem that for too long has generated tensions, more than justified, on the territory and that the institutions have not seriously considered possible solutions".
29 May 2013
Source: TargatoCN