Hunting: Piedmont, the changes made to the 2015-16 Hunting Calendar and approved in recent days to accommodate the prescriptions of the TAR, leaves everyone unhappy.
The Region has approved a variation to the Hunting Calendar, accepting the prescriptions of the TAR which had given reason to the appeals presented by hunters. The hunting of black crow, hooded crow, magpie and jay is anticipated. Unchanged that with wild boar. Farmers: “we are still waiting for reimbursement for damage to crops”.
Some small changes have been made but still not enough. Everyone, farmers and hunters, the variation al Hunting Calendar voted yesterday by the Piedmont Region. For the Alessandria area, in fact, nothing changes, except an advance for the hunting of black crow, hooded crow, magpie and jay in the areas of competence of ATC areas 2, 3 and 4.
The opening of the scheduled boar hunt remains three days. “We expected greater attention to the problem of ungulates which are causing considerable damage to crops, especially in the vineyards”, say from the Confagricoltura Alessandria offices.
Last July the farmers' associations had presented a collection of signatures and held a protest demonstration in front of the offices of the Prefecture of Palazzo Ghilini. More recently, they returned to ask for a meeting with the Prefect to seek shared solutions to a problem that is assuming worrying proportions. “After the meeting in July, we are still awaiting a new call from the Prefect on the subject”, they add from the CIA.
"We are still far behind on compensation for damage to cultures caused by wild boars - they still say from Confagricoltura - in some territories of the province the members have yet to receive the funds for 2013".
The hunters are also dissatisfied: "Since last April the council voted for the first document, produced without the hunting associations having been previously consulted, Federcaccia Piemonte and the coordination of hunting associations expressed all their profound dissent towards the regional work, asking for the calendar to be changed, anticipating openings, extending some forms of hunting and reintegrating species that had been treacherously excluded. - Federcaccia writes - Numerous meetings were not enough, and the Region never made any serious and credible solution to our requests, restoring dignity to Piedmontese hunting and guaranteeing more than 25.000 enthusiasts nothing more than equal treatment to that received by all other Italian hunters.
The recourse to the TAR thus became inevitable, and the victory obtained by the hunting world should have given the Councilor an opportunity to correct what was born badly. This was not the case, and the Region has limited itself to adapting to the order of the Piedmontese Administrative Court by putting ... a piece worse than the hole!
A new calendar was born, incomplete in some parts and with diversified openings such as to displease everyone and which would seem to be motivated more by wanting to punish the applicants, rather than solving a serious and important problem such as that of hunting.
We - continue by Federcaccia - we immediately told the Councilor, reiterating it again in the last meeting had by the Coordination with him on 5 August, and asking for the whole hunting season to be anticipated, avoiding fractional openings that only serve to create confusion and increase discontent among the hunters themselves: unified opening, for all species, to the third week of September, just as required by law 157/92 ". The shotguns, in any case, will return to fire from 27 September, with some exceptions (ATC Alessandria 1) where they will start in November.
(September 4, 2015)
Source: AlessandriaNews
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