Hunting in Tuscany: controversy over the new provision concerning hunting huts in the process of being approved; contrasts between Federcaccia and farmers seasoned by environmental protests.
It is time to hunt and also in Tuscany a new provision is being discussed in favor of building for hunting use, after the Venetian law on the roof terraces was recently challenged before the Constitutional Court.
The text relating to the "Provisions for the construction of artifacts to support the hunting activity of wild boars" has been enriched with the contributions expressed in the Environment and Agriculture Commission of various exponents of the agricultural, hunting and environmental world and is preparing to be approved with the support of both the PD and the PDL.
According to the President of the Environment and Agriculture Commission, Vincenzo Ceccarelli (Pd), the new regulation would allow, in fact: "the creation of special products and the reuse of agricultural outbuildings no longer used". As explained by Ceccarelli, the new provision would actually allow the activities of the beltlai teams to be carried out, connected to hunting, and considered by the President himself as "a moment of community and associative life of considerable importance that the law intends to encourage".
Environmentalists, as reported by the GeaPress agency, criticize the risk that a sort of amnesty, if not a liberation, is hidden behind the procedures for issuing the housing permit, the methods of use, the location bans and the destination constraint. on building constraints and thus favoring the hunting world once again. For the WWF, this would in particular be a broad exemption without constraints.
As an example, the WWF refers to the height of these structures. Furthermore, neither restructuring nor new settlements would be contemplated in the text of the provision. Therefore, according to what the WWF always maintains, the text of the law appears more related to the government of the territory than to the hunting itself.
Federcaccia thinks differently, for which the law in question is a "valid attempt to remedy a situation that already exists in the area". Federcaccia also raised the need to overcome the hunter-farmer dualism, which according to the former does not correspond to the reality of the facts, even if the farmers' associations do not think in the same way.
Confagricoltura Toscana also expressed itself on the subject and, again with regard to urban planning regulations, compared to the stringent rules for farmers, it stands alongside the hunting world. While, for Coldiretti it would be an attempt put in place to stabilize the teams of wild boar hunters.
Coldiretti observed: "I regret that with all the problems that persist in the agricultural sector, we find ourselves talking about a bill that allows, easily, interventions on the territory that, on the other hand, are long and complex for others". The Italian Confederation of Farmers also commented on the provision, according to which “we are trying to respond to the needs of a non-economic activity with a regulatory solution that allows permanent construction”.
With respect to the split that has arisen between farmers and hunters, the Vice-President of the Environment and Agriculture Commission, Andrea Agresti (PdL), has also defined it as conceptually wrong. In the meantime, in the Environment and Agriculture Commission, with the approval of the President and Vice President, the process of the disputed regional law proposal continues.
(September 14 2012)
Source: LaNazione - Tuscany