A crucial step
The recent adoption of the new Wildlife Hunting Plan by the Tuscan Regional Council represents a crucial step forward, one our Association has been working on for some time. It addresses unjustifiable delays in a key planning measure for wildlife management. This step forward, pending final approval by the Regional Council—now postponed until the next legislative session—is not expected to have immediate effects on wildlife hunting activities in the short term, and cannot yet be considered exhaustive or definitive. It will now be necessary to address, within the expected timeframe, the issues that emerge from the text, in order to improve the quality of its content and the strategies that will need to be implemented in the coming years.
Political readings
For these reasons, we have deemed it appropriate to avoid propagandistic comments or triumphalistic tones, preferring a cautious approach to aspects that still require further investigation and which, in some cases, may require corrections during the ongoing council process and during the collection of further comments, expected within sixty days of publication. Federcaccia Toscana-UCT will continue to provide further assistance in overcoming the critical issues that have emerged or will emerge. Unfortunately, some recent statements—even authoritative ones—force us to reiterate our position regarding attempts to force political interpretations of the delicate relationship between wildlife and agricultural production.
Presence of ungulates
The message they are trying to convey is to declare the presence of ungulates, or more generally all wild fauna, "incompatible" with agricultural activity, not just professional farming. This is a concept that is completely impractical and extreme, even from a naturalistic and environmental perspective. Indeed, unless there are profound constitutional and legislative changes—including at the EU level—wildlife represents a public good, and therefore a universal value to be preserved and, in some cases, managed, with the right balance between its conservation and human activities. In our opinion, therefore, the true heart of the matter will be to ensure, including through regional planning tools, proper management of wild populations, which should be considered not as a disaster, but as a resource to be conserved and managed in the general interest and for future generations, reaffirming the general principle of Article 9 of the Constitution. The real effort to be made will therefore be to raise the level and tools of management and prevention to protect agricultural production, without ever losing sight of the overall value of the resource.
The appearance of damage
The quality of the new PFVR will be determined by a new paradigm that empowers farmers, hunters, and even the non-fundamentalist environmentalist community to focus on the production of biodiversity and a production system in harmony with the significant environmental and climate changes we are experiencing. Wildlife is part of this integrated system and certainly cannot be considered a harmful or invasive element in any general sense. Finally, we recall that, thanks to the years of commitment by the ATC system, we have now reached an almost physiological level in terms of damage, despite Tuscany being one of the regions most affected by high-quality agriculture and excellent products. Our hope, therefore, is for everyone to get back to reality, to engage responsibly and with foresight in the document's individual contents, in pursuit of a shared outcome—including with the regional agricultural community—while avoiding excesses and exaggerations on a topic that, by its very nature, involves complex dynamics. (Press Office Federcaccia Toscana-UCT)
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