“Despite the delay with which they have been implemented, we are satisfied that the new regional regulation for the wild boar hunting accepted our proposals. But now the comparison must continue without delay and the Council enabled to operate an effective hunting fauna governance with new and updated methods and tools ". To say it is the regional president FIdC Calabria, coordinator of the regional AVVs. The Coordination of Calabrian Hunting Associations (Federcaccia, Libera Caccia, Enalcaccia, Arci Caccia, ANUUMigratoristi, Italcaccia and Eps), in relation to the approval of the amendments to the regulations for the Hunting Management of the Wild Boar Species, expresses satisfaction, for the acceptance of the proposals formulated by the hunting world, although this happened more than a year late.
In fact, it is necessary to point out that the changes made to the Regulations in question, in addition to crown the incessant battles on this as well as on other management issues of the Calabrian AVVs, arise mainly from a fruitful discussion, which took place in recent weeks at the Faunal-Hunting Consultation. Finally the Regional Council, following the articulated activity of the Council, the Agriculture Department and the Hunting Office, gathering the pressing demands of the hunting world, has remedied a series of points that without improving the management of the species in question went to infringe the most elementary individual rights of hunters, causing heavy and unjustified limitations to the hunting activity of hunting teams (suspension for teams that did not carry out 10 kills during the season and cancellation from the teams for hunters who were absent for more than three times for no good reason).
What matters most though, are the changes and additions aimed at making the action more effective on an increasingly invasive and impacting species on other animal species, on agricultural activities and on the safety of citizens. Among the key points envisaged by the new Regulations, the possibility of twinning between teams without batting limits (previously provided for only three times a year); the "unbureaucratization" of administrative procedures, with a better articulation of deadlines and a simplification for both teams and AATTCC, saving time and costs for both citizens and the public administration; the introduction, in an experimental form, of single hunting as a containment method of the species to mitigate damage to crops, outside the designated areas and assigned to the teams, the latter to be exercised only after the hunter's communication to the ATC they belong to and to the Hunting Office of the Region, who will deliver to the interested parties a vademecum with the provisions to be observed. On the matter, the AAVV have proposed such provisions, in relation to the primary needs of security.
Beyond the specific, we believe it is important to underline the fact that the Calabrian AAVVs, starting from the various proposals and requests made over the last year, they experienced the confrontation in the Consulta, highlighting and strongly requesting a necessary update of the dynamics of confrontation and action of this organism, highlighted even more by the discussion of such a burning and delicate issue. A more current, but above all functional, approach to faunal management issues requires planning based on solid and up-to-date technical-scientific hunting knowledge; constant monitoring and always up-to-date knowledge of the composition of wild populations obtained through censuses throughout the region; the creation of an "Information System" with the mapping of the areas with the highest incidence of damage to crops and the timely census of the areas and cases of TB. All aimed at the implementation of the necessary governance that sees as protagonists in addition to the Region and the AATTCC, all the other components interested in the issue.
The next steps will have to expand the comparison with respect to the monitoring and management of the wild boar species as well within the protected areas. The Consultation is the ideal setting to continue the discussion and to verify and implement all those sustainable proposals to overcome the "wild boar emergency". The hunting associations that are part of the Coordination will continue to work hard in a spirit of responsibility, and are now asking for the convening of the Council to continue the discussion, with particular reference to health problems. Plan to implement effective governance and take charge of the needs of all components, the agricultural world in the lead, can materialize in the hoped for (by all) change of pace to see the wild boar transform from a problem, and in some cases a real emergency, to a resource for the whole region.