Tuscan Hunters: at the regional assembly of the Confederation of Tuscan Hunters there is talk of "New Hunt".
"They were born betting on unity and hope, convinced as we are that it is the necessary condition to affirm a new hunting, capable of resuming the role it deserves in society and in this first year of activity the path we have traveled and the results achieved encourage us to continue decisively on this path ": thus Moreno Periccioli, on behalf of the presidency of the CCT, to which Federcaccia adheres , Arcicaccia and Anuu, summarized the state of the art, at the turning point of the first year of life, on the occasion of the second Regional Assembly of the Confederation.
The intention to move forward with determination on this path, to build the common house of hunters, has resurfaced several times in the budget and in the development of the political platform that the CCT will be engaged in in the coming months. Accelerating the path towards definitive unity, in Tuscany and at national level: this is the substance that characterized the numerous interventions of the delegates, unanimous in underlining the need to further increase the efforts to reach the goal as soon as possible.
The balance of the first year of life is decidedly positive: the understanding and homogeneity of the management groups has grown at all levels and the concerns of the eve of the diversity of stories have been overcome by the facts, having revealed the different experiences a richness in more and certainly not an obstacle. A lesson, as has been underlined, that it is desirable to be understood by those associations that persist in not understanding and hindering the path of unity. The unanimous and shared choices on appointments in the ATC testify to the fact that the agreement is not a facade: an approach rewarded by the resistance of the members in the face of the decline in hunters. Among the results achieved in the foreground the certainty of resources for ATCs for management: “a fact whose relevance - it was recalled - will be even more evident when the weight of the cuts in progress in regional budgets will fully unfold its effects”.
Among the many things that have seen the CCT involved, interventions to solicit legislative measures at the national level regarding issues such as the management of ungulates, stalking (on which significant results have been obtained in Tuscany that are now aiming to consolidate in the nationals) and live recalls; in the regional context, the significance of the approved hunting calendar was highlighted without giving in to blackmail in terms of timing and species.
Hunting then, for the first time, entered in a non-subordinate way into the regulations approved on the subject of territorial governance, protected areas (hunters in the consultation bodies) and sits at the tables in which the management of the wolf is discussed. There remain open questions, such as that of the size of the dog boxes (which, incomprehensibly, the Regional Council does not want to bring back, despite a motion to that effect unanimously approved by the Regional Council, to the provisions of EU regulations), the untimely approval of amendments to the new legislation on hunting in Tuscany that solicit reflection on the relationship with politics.
In view of the upcoming elections, once the transversal character of the CCT with respect to parties has been reaffirmed, the aim is to support those candidates who, within the parties, have a positive dialogue with the world of hunting. Important milestones also on an organizational level: the birth of CEDAF, Centro Didattica Ambientale Faunistica, a training agency, the only one in Italy, recognized by the Tuscany Region and authorized to operate in the training sector throughout the national territory and of the AMBITUS service structure, consortium able to support wildlife management activities on a technical and scientific level.
Finally, on the agenda, in addition to the topics indicated in the political platform unanimously approved together with the final and budget budgets, a Programmatic Conference on the new hunting and the start with the establishment of a special organizing committee, the path for a fair recognition at international level as a cultural heritage.
Confederation of Tuscan Hunters (Federcaccia - Arcicaccia - ANUU)
(May 6, 2015)