A serious damage to the territory
The idea of establishing a pro-environmentalist animal rights group periodically returns to the centre of the debate natural park in the Dauni MountainsA project presented as an environmental protection measure, but which instead risks seriously damaging a territory that has been preserved over time thanks to those who live and work there daily. The Daunia Sub-Apennines are not a "wild" land to be protected from human intervention, but rather a landscape shaped over the centuries by farmers, ranchers, hunters, and local communities, capable of maintaining a complex and virtuous balance between human activities and the natural environment. It is this balance that represents the true environmental value of the area.
Wild boar emergency
Ignoring this reality means failing to address the region's concrete problems, starting with wildlife management. The wild boar crisis is evident: damage to crops, safety risks, and a compromised wildlife balance. Yet, in the debate over parks, those who play a vital role in wildlife control are often delegitimized, only to then urgently resort to the intervention of hunters and wildlife controllers in critical situations, such as African swine fever. A contradiction that is difficult to ignore. The claim to protect the environment and animals, but the result risks the abandonment of land, the marginalization of agriculture, and the exclusion of local communities from decision-making processes. This is the result of an ideological environmentalism, far removed from the reality of inland areas and more concerned with slogans and public mandates than with concrete and responsible land management.
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Conflicts and mistrust
Before quietly introducing new restrictions or creating enormous new park areas, it would be necessary to engage and listen to landowners, farmers, and citizens. They have, in effect, been the primary custodians of the land, and this has been the case for centuries. Imposing a park from above, without consent, fuels conflict and mistrust, as well as raising legitimate concerns that certain initiatives are motivated by political interests rather than genuine environmental concerns. These concerns from the environmentalist world are completely absent in the case of the disaster that wind and solar power are still wreaking on our land!
Report in the appropriate venues
ArciCaccia is ready to denounce in all appropriate venues that environmental protection does not arise from abstract prohibitions or top-down decisions, but from the active involvement of those who live on the land, know it, and respect it. Otherwise, we risk betraying the very thing we claim to defend. The Dauni Mountains do not need to be "saved" by those who observe them from afar, but rather by respect, listening, and real support for the agricultural, forestry, and pastoral economy. This concrete support is already provided by the hunting community, in its own small way, through tourism, wildlife management companies, compensation for damage caused by wildlife, and the numerous festivals that each year enhance and highlight the many communities of our beloved province of Foggia (source: ArciCaccia Foggia).
