Yesterday the news of a meeting promoted by Prefect of Siena to face for the umpteenth time, theWolf emergency, on a territory that is now daily affected by attacks on livestock that risk compromising the already precarious economy of a sector of excellence like that caseo-dairy. A meeting that saw the participation of numerous Mayors, the President of the Province of Siena, the Prefect of Grosseto and its Mayor Vivarelli Colonna. So many authorities who, together with the representatives of the shepherds, the hunting world and the ATCs, again wanted to address an urgent appeal to the Tuscany region so that concrete steps forward are made on the management of this large predator at the same time ensuring certain resources and support to a sector, the zootechnical one and in particular of sheep breeding, already dying for the price of milk and for the known difficulties generated by the market.
A cry of alarm that sees united those who live the territory every day and who do not resign themselves to remain passive against a culture of conservation which does not take into account man, his activities and the maintenance of a garrison in many internal and rural realities of our Tuscany. In 2017 alone, over 590 attacks were reported, a situation now unsustainable, the pastors gathered in the committee declare "Unity is strength" to which the Region responds with the promise of pressure on the Ministry of the Environment to authorize catches and other possible interventions that however involve long and exhausting negotiations with those who still persist in considering the Wolf a species to be safeguarded, preserve and increase regardless of its relationship with man and his activities.
While in Siena, Grosseto and in almost all Tuscan realities people continue to ask for a change of course on the management of the species, yesterday and today in Rome, Ispra organized a bombastic conference on the objective of monitoring the species and homogenizing the detection methods. and census. Over 240 participants from the technical and scientific world with the presence of the Ministry of the Environment are discussing the issue. In the interventions that we had the opportunity to follow during the live streaming only a few of the speakers present, including Gianpiero Sammuri and Marco Apollonio, had the competence and seriousness to place the central themes on which urgent action will be needed: the presence of the Wolf does not it is more just a problem of conservation given the consistency, the number of individuals present and the constantly increasing herds up to the gates of the cities. The real problem is of an exquisitely nature policy.
In fact, it is necessary to accompany the word “Conservation” with that of “Management” overcoming ideological barriers and activating all the management forms that we recall are being applied in almost all European countries. For that reason in addition to mapping, taking stock and unifying the monitoring criteria, action must be taken now and immediately. The impression is that certain conferences are very far from the reality that is lived in the territories. Far from those used to wresting their own survival and that of their family from the earth. Far from those who are not satisfied with support for their business but just want to continue to exercise it with dignity. Who will win this battle of culture and civilization? There Confederation of Tuscan Hunters is firmly convinced that the terms conservation and management represent a virtuous combination for moving towards a single common goal; just want it!