Hunting: Calabria, the Regional Hunting Calendar valid for the 2013-2014 season approved by the Regional Council.
The Council of the Calabria Region in the session of 29 July 2013 unanimously approved the combined text of the bills relating to the Regional Hunting Calendar for the 2013-2014 Hunting Season and the rules for the protection and management of wildlife and the organization for the purposes of the planned discipline of the hunting exercise.
The president of the IV Commission "Planning and use of the territory, protection of the environment", Gianluca Gallo, explaining the contents of the new Hunting Calendar, explained that it is a matter of “A text that arises from the pressing need to combine conservation and protection of the environment with correct hunting practice. In fact, the new text envisages the establishment of the Regional Wildlife Observatory as a primary body of consultancy and scientific investigation in hunting matters ”.
Continuing the rooster added "Other relevant innovations contained in the articles are represented by the provision of a specific regulation for the determination of the criteria for identifying the territories to be used for the establishment of wildlife hunting companies, as well as for the determination of the criteria for the implementation of environmental improvements., including the creation of wetlands, establishing that the preparation of the provincial hunting wildlife plans takes place well in advance of the regional one and, in any case, no later than XNUMX May of the reference year, increasing from thirty to sixty days the term of formal notice by the Provinces ".
Numerous positive judgments for the new wildlife management document, including the councilor Giovanni Nucera who pointed out that the approval of the new rules "fills a legislative vacuum that has lasted for about 18 years, and adjusts it to the new needs of the sports world. But it is also a breath of fresh air for a system that over the years had become asphyxiated, but which in the past had represented an important income item for the regional economy ”.
Similarly, the director Giuseppe Giordano highlighted that it is a "work with an attitude of participation, carried out in the Commission, in favor of a law that gives a lot of space to environmental improvements, to the protection of habitats that have been put at risk" . The director Antonio Scalzo, in announcing the favorable vote of his group, highlighted the double significance of the provision "that if on the one hand it regulates the sector, on the other it proposes to give absolute protection to the environment and to the regional ecosystem".
August 3th, 2013