Arcicaccia Toscana on animal rights controversies, “Be careful not to pull too hard”, the sense of responsibility of hunters cannot be outraged.
The Regional President of Arci Caccia Toscana, Fabio Lupi, in reference to the animal rights controversy on the issues of hunters in the schools of Grosseto and fox hunting in the den for the containment of the species in the territory of the province of Siena, has issued the following statement:
“The events of these days, from Grosseto to Siena, strongly imbued with animalist fundamentalism, risk causing paralysis of wildlife management in Tuscany; the hunting world is not available to be identified as the center of all evils and all responsibilities.
Putting together the feared cuts to the wildlife sector - with respect to which there is still no certainty despite the fact that these resources have only come out of the pockets of the hunters - the war in progress to dry the balance sheets of the ATCs to direct them only on the front of compensation for damages by preventing the necessary investments for correct wildlife management, hostilities towards forms of assistance and services for hunters, the lack of a widely shared strategy to solve the major problems of national legislation (relationship between protected areas and territory with planned hunting, damage and general taxation, role of Ispra and regional competences) are creating the concrete risk - especially now that it is cemented with the rising wave of vulgar and irresponsible animalism that has a strong parliamentary representation - of leading, in a short time, to a complete paralysis of management wildlife and the consequent abandonment by the hunting world of actions n necessary for the government of wild populations.
We remind everyone that the sense of responsibility shown over the years by the hunting world has managed to combine the playful dimension with that of general interests through the implementation of countless voluntary actions and interventions (wildlife containment, prevention, investments, etc.). Should this climate of general aversion persist, the hunters could, in spite of themselves, be forced to disengage with very serious consequences, which would have a social impact of vast proportions that not even public order interventions would be able to resolve.
Unless the various animal-environmental groups do not want them to take charge of the management operations, starting with the control of ungulates and compensation for damage to crops. It would be curious to see how they fare and how farmers would react whenever there was damage! It is therefore necessary that the reasonableness of all those who care about the management of wildlife as a topic of general interest return to the field and that the culture of that healthy rurality strongly re-emerges, capable of being in tune with the real emergencies of the country " .
Arci Caccia Tuscany
(March 30, 2013)