The cross-reading of the press releases from Coldiretti and Legambiente Toscana lead to a representation of reality that we reject with indignation and firmness. Particularly unbearable is the accusation of having received, as a Tuscan hunting world, an "electoral gift" from the Region, as if the representatives of the hunters had bargained for advantages in the face of promises to vote against the various political forces that sit in the Council Regional. The facts show not only that there is no lobby of hunters, but rather certain logics of a welfare type or a certain environmentalism of convenience feed behaviors that belong to others. We are faced with a gratuitous and incomprehensible attack, especially since the press releases in question were issued in the aftermath of a position taken by the Tuscany Region, which asked Parliament that an intervention will come to resolve the emergency at its root. damage caused by wildlife.
It is good that we know how things really are: today the damage caused by wildlife is compensated exclusively with the resources coming from the taxes paid by the hunters. This happens despite the regulatory framework that provides that wildlife is, rightly, an unavailable heritage of the state. Furthermore, it is necessary that everyone is aware that Law 157/92 art. 23 paragraph 4, art. 26 paragraph 1, the Tuscan Regional Law 3/94 art. 7 paragraph 3, art. 12 and the PRAF, unequivocally clarify that the resources deriving from the regional taxation on hunting and the registration fees to the ATC must necessarily be allocated to land management actions, environmental improvements, investments in favor of wildlife conservation. and only as a percentage do they contribute to compensation for damages, also favoring the greater destination of these resources for actions and works of prevention.
To this is added the insult that, always with only the money of the hunters, the law obliges the delegated bodies, even as a priority, to pay compensation for the damage caused by non-huntable species. What is the financial consideration that is made available to contribute to this situation by those who, today, on the front of the living room environmentalism, accuse us of lobbying? All those who today accuse the hunters of lobbying and defaulting do not pay a single euro or make objective proposals for the solution of the problem. This concerns in particular the irresponsibility of those who, even in the environmentalist world, express hairy solidarity with farmers, when they themselves are the main cause, through the total lack of management of protected areas, of the explosion and failure to control the ungulate populations. .
The true gravity of the two press releases is that the central question of the proposal for wildlife and environmental management continues to be omitted for the next few years, without, among other things, referring to the striking original contradiction, which placed fauna as a heritage of the collectivity (for us a value to defend) delegating exclusively to the hunters the financial and managerial burden of the same.
It is unthinkable that such an important and complex problem could fall solely on the human and economic resources of hunters. Situation that will also worsen as a result of the planned cuts to the sector, with respect to which we oppose in solitude and with the indifference of all, the same indifference that has allowed the State to withhold the transfer of 50% of the national tax in favor of the region (Tuscany has lost tens of millions of euros) which today could have positively returned to agriculture and the environment as well.
An urgent national legislative initiative is needed which, once and for all, overcomes the contradictions between land management with planned hunting and protected areas, gives the Bodies and ATC the management tools to effectively address the problem, introduces the element of competition for general taxation for the damage issue and for aspects related to road safety.
Nobody talks about this as we witness the shameful attempt to place all the responsibility for this situation on the hunters. We are literally thrilled by the acrobatics of those who, just two days ago, on a national level, signed an important document that reconfirms the correctness of conservative hunting and wildlife management in the public interest and which, today, is miserably contradicted by communicated like the ones we have read.
A Kafkaesque misunderstanding is also being artfully created on the contested amendments; those same amendments, introducing CAVs as legitimate tools of service to hunters, like those that agricultural associations have been carrying out for years for their competences, nothing will change anything on the subject of damage compared to the existing one in terms of percentage of resources available, but protection tools are inserted towards the members of all the representations in the ATC management committees, which should be one of the main concerns of those regional associations that today contest it, relegating it to a miserable operation of electoral cabotage.
Moreover, these topics of debate were well known and extensively deepened in the countless associative and institutional initiatives in which those who today accuse the lack of concertation have always actively participated. Now a question arises: what concert did they attend? If the strings, timpani and trombones have produced a sensational out of tune it is certainly not our fault. We sadly take note of the delay and incongruity with which serious issues continue to be addressed.
It is necessary for someone to reset the alarm, coordinate national thinking a little better with the local one and finish interpreting reality through the "cartoon" approach (trapping is a clear demonstration of this) but through wisdom, modest and refined, muddy boots.
23 February 2013
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