Hunting: Piedmont, the bewilderment of CAVP for the 2015-16 Hunting Calendar

Hunting: Piedmont, the bewilderment of the Coordination of Piedmontese Hunting Associations for the 2015-16 Regional Hunting Calendar.

The Coordination of Piedmontese Hunting Associations recognized pursuant to Law 157/92, on behalf of the more than 25.000 hunters represented, expresses bewilderment and his deepest dissatisfaction with the 2015/16 vintage hunting calendar, recently approved by the Board of the Piedmont Region. This document, drawn up without the usual methods of comparison with the Hunting Associations, and therefore with a system that had never been tested before, contains in itself such and many inconsistencies, technical errors, unjustified limitations, as to make it of the all unacceptable. In Piedmont, it should be remembered here, hunting is carried out with a National Law, the 157/92, and therefore it is not clear why it should be ignored in many of its aspects, thus not offering Piedmontese hunters treatment similar to that guaranteed to any other colleague. Italian, even if our region could be considered a case in its own right, almost being a "primus inter pares" in the sad primacy of the ties and ties tight around the neck of the fans.

The text presented by Councilor Giorgio Ferrero, voted on Monday 13 April, contains absurd limitations on the exercise of hunting activities; limitations that clash with common sense and logic, not at all supported by scientific data, such as the claim to send Piedmontese hunters in search of migratory wild animals such as quail and turtle dove, hunted and abundant everywhere, in a period in which they no longer transit on our territory. Likewise, the hunting period established by the calendar intends to force subalpine enthusiasts to exercise their activity for a much shorter period than that allowed by law 157/92, with the start of the season postponed to October 4 instead of the third week of September; similar treatment with regard to closures, all earlier than in the rest of Italy and with Piedmontese hunters forced to put weapons and equipment in their lockers when in the neighboring regions the same game is still being hunted in our territory!

The calendar also contains other unjustified limitations to the exercise of the alpine hunting activity, to the typical fauna, hunting of Piedmontese history and tradition, responding only to the logic of giving continuity to the absurd provision of closing the withdrawal of the ptarmigan of the past season when, despite the favorable opinion of ISPRA, and supported by scientific data and censuses carried out in accordance with the guidelines of the Region, the mountain hunters were penalized. It should be remembered here how then the Hunting Associations and many Alpine Districts were forced to spend the hunters' money to resort to the TAR, winning it in vain because Councilor Ferrero refused to reopen the hunt for that species, as the supreme regional administrative body had authorized. The story did not end there, and in these days a second appeal was discussed at the TAR which was forced by some Associations and Sections that did not want to submit to the bullying of the Region.

In Piedmont, the Wildlife Plan is still missing, hampered by the bureaucratic procedures of the approval process, just as we are still lacking in regional law, after the 70/96 was repealed and never replaced; these mistakes are paid for by the hunters. The writers have worked for months alongside Councilor Ferrero in order to develop a legislative text that can be a synthesis of every opposing interest, and of every interested category: farmers, environmentalists, local authorities and hunters. Since then nothing has been known, and the document must have remained on the table of some subalpine bureaucrat. In truth, a signal from corso United States 21 has reached us: the Calendar!

This is not good, and the Coordination promises all Piedmontese hunters that they will not be idle, taking action so that this bad calendar, certainly ... the worst ever, is changed before the opening; we will ask for access to the documents to understand what were the requests of the Region and the observations of ISPRA and so we will know the truth. We will also organize a demonstration. The time is there, now all you need is the will to take action. The appointment with Councilor Ferrero is set for 6 May.

The Coordination of Piedmontese Hunting Associations

(April 20, 2015)