In front of an extended audience the Assembly promoted by the Confederation of Tuscan Hunters in San Casciano Val di Pesa. Many responded to the invitation of the promoters to protest and oppose the attempt to distort the role of public structures (Restocking and Capture Zones) present on the territory and for their transformation. A decision supported by the Commissioner of ATC Firenze 5 and confirmed by the Tuscany Region, in the absence of the new Regional Wildlife Hunting Plan and the necessary planning guidelines.
The assembly, which was also attended by the Mayor of San Casciano Val di Pesa Massimiliano Pescini intervened in defense of the reasons of the organizers, entered into the merits of the problems by approving, at the end, a final document that will be sent today to the Tuscany Region, to the President Enrico Rossi and the Commissioner ATC Firenze 5. After the presentations and the opening of the evening by the President of the Federcaccia di San Casciano Lorenzo Calamendrei and the ARCT President of San Casciano Silvano Marchi, who immediately highlighted the clear attempt to distorting the role and functions of public institutions with unshared choices and which put a great wildlife heritage at risk, numerous interventions by speakers and guests of the evening followed. clarified the total opposition of Federcaccia, in harmony with all the Associations adhering to the CCT on this method of proceeding implemented by the Commissioner ATC Firenze 5 and by the Tuscany region.
The problem of the management of ungulates, and in particular of cervids due to the damage caused to crops in a very delicate area such as that of our Chianti, cannot be solved with the shortcut of transforming the ZRC into ZRV but rather by producing structural management choices, so as happened in other ATCs such as Siena 3 nord. No to provisions of dubious administrative legitimacy that risk allowing an upheaval on the purposes of public wildlife institutes envisaged by the law. Tofani also recalled how it is necessary to accelerate the time for the appointment of the new ATC Firenze 5 committee to allow the overcoming of an unacceptable commissioner phase, which risks preventing a confrontation and real participation in the choices concerning the territory that only an ATC in the fullness of its administrative bodies can allow. After some technical insights into the role and functions of the Restocking and Capture Zones developed by Dr. Veronica Racanelli, Roberto Vivarelli, President of ATC Siena 3 nord and coordinator of the Tuscan ATCs, warmed up the crowd.
The management of cervids within the ZRC is a problem that can be faced and solved - said Vivarelli - and the experience we have achieved demonstrates how it is possible to apply the containment interventions in article 37 for these species also in the ZRC. In the ATC Siena 3 nord, thanks to the meticulous commitment of our technicians in the recognition, data collection and irrefutable documentation, on the impact that the populations in question produce on crops (in particular vineyards), today it has been possible to carry out targeted and decisive interventions with the collaboration and participation of over 300 selection hunters; interventions supported by the positive opinion of Ispra. The escapes forward and a regional wildlife plan that proceeds in "excerpts" will never have our support! This is the tone of the speech by the young ARCT manager Matteo De Chiara. Hunters can contribute to the solution of management problems by putting in place quality and policy development to demonstrate that hunting can contribute to environmental and wildlife protection. To solve problems such as the one we are facing and other challenges that haunt our world and our passion, we must accelerate the process of the unity of the hunting world in a single large subject, representative, competent, inclusive and communicative.
That's why today, I don't feel like an exponent of a hunting theme, but an inhabitant and militant of the common House of Hunters. Whoever insists on working against unity, in the face of the fatal challenges that await us, is against hunting! The thunderous, convinced and sincere applause that accompanied the various interventions gave the measure of the great sharing on the themes exposed and on the desire and enthusiasm to continue on the path of the unitary project of the CCT. After a timely intervention by Giovanni Doddoli who had the merit of representing the risks that are being run, if the plan were to go ahead in the terms known, the President Tofani on behalf of all the confederate associations has proposed a conclusive document that will be sent today. In short, among the various points, the Assembly asks that:
a formal act is produced by the Region of Tuscany, which establishes that the experimentation of ZRV ends on April 15, 2020 and that all return to being ZRC
the possibility of catching game is officially available in the first months of 2020 as in the past
prepare a slaughter plan to be presented in Ispra, for the control of roe deer, as in other Tuscan ATCs
the absolute legitimacy of hunters to carry out their hunting activity is clarified before 15 June 2019, while the perimeter of these areas remains with tables bearing the wording "ZRC"
The formal acts of practice are notified to the owners of the land
We also ask that areas not be subtracted from the Territory for Scheduled Hunting in favor of other Institutes, especially if deriving from recent changes in the ZRC perimeter.