On the question of the call for awareness raising actions against fight against poaching we place, as always, the utmost trust both towards the Court of Auditors and towards the police, who know how to do their job with attention, competence and professionalism, and therefore we look forward confidently the conclusion of investigations and investigations. Even the hunting associations have always been involved in combating illegal activities in the wildlife and hunting sector, alongside, through their voluntary guards, the supervisory bodies of the provinces and metropolitan cities. Don't want the councilor Zanonia if we also cultivate these passions and this commitment, alongside the institutions: it is certainly not his exclusive heritage.
We remind you that the taxes paid annually to the regional coffers by Venetian hunters to exercise the hunting activity (€ 84,00 per person) they constitute restricted funds for actions and interventions for the protection and management of the fauna and therefore the environment and the territory. In the specific case of the Call subject to assessment, the committed resources, compared to the total annual revenue, they represent about 5% of the total. Resources that have been disbursed on the basis of a public tender which provided for specific criteria and limits of eligibility and which, it seems necessary to highlight, was not at the time the subject of appeals or administrative appeals not even on the part of those who, today, want to stand up as a champion of legality. If that announcement contained illegitimate or even ambiguous provisions and measures, the times and spaces of the transparency of the PA (the announcement was examined by the council commission and was published in the official bulletin of the region) would have made it possible to remedy and improve.
From the same restricted budget funds, the Region obtains, as Councilor Zanoni should know, the resources for the recovery, treatment and rehabilitation of wildlife in difficulty, the so-called "CRAS" for which both Zanoni and his colleague are managed. these weeks propose the equation "fewer resources to Cras to provide funds to hunting associations", often praising the heroic deeds of Associations and Groups or even private individuals who manage these structures, according to an alleged philanthropic spirit. It is a pity that the councilors Guarda and Zanoni are unable to explain, first to themselves, why the assignment of public resources on the basis of a tender for awareness-raising actions should be criticized - regardless against the fight against poaching and instead nothing is said about the assignment of the CRAS activities with paid payments (but were they not voluntary activities, Councilor Zanoni? ...) outside of parameterisation and competitive comparison, which is the foundation of sound management of public money.
So we would like to ask the councilor Zanoni and his colleague Look: how are the management of the CRAS entrusted ?! With as many public tenders or with other forms that do not guarantee the same transparency? And again, how much money do the so-called animal / environmental associations pay to regional funds or do they just want to draw on public money to make propaganda? Certainly volunteering is the basis of social commitment and so we ask ourselves: why only these associations have the management of CRAS and various protected environmental realities (parks, oases, etc.)? Is there some element of privilege or pre-emption? It is not known to us! Perhaps even for these situations an in-depth analysis of the financiers and the Court of Auditors could be useful, because it is always public money.
It is necessary to remind the councilors Guarda and Zanoni who shoot (it is appropriate to say it ...) random figures, that for the same 2020 call for proposals the Associations that subscribe to this information note have - jointly - renounced the funds, asking the Region to allocate them to the COVID emergency during the first and most dramatic year of the pandemic. There are no similar waivers on the part of the Environmental and animal welfare associations with respect to the acquisition of public funds. And finally: Councilor Zanoni it is very true that the PD is for respect and protection of the environment and we too are as much as the associations you refer to, but we did not find in the documents of the PD adversity to the hunting exercise carried out in the compliance with the rules. So stop trying to criminalize hunters once and for all. It seems to us that even his colleagues have grown tired of this broken record that plays every time we talk about hunting and hunters.
This is demonstrated by the recent vote in the Third Commission with respect to the 2021 edition of the Call in question. We consider ourselves good people and in any case - unlike those who, perhaps to participate in a (perhaps too hasty) entrusting a CRAS, one's criminal record can be limited to self-certification - each hunter is periodically subject to checks and controls by the public administration with respect to the possession of the requisites of reliability and morality; citizens / hunters who like many have at heart the protection of the environment and the management of the fauna, fish, woodland and floral heritage of our Region. Perhaps not all citizens, and among them also those you represent, have these values as close to heart as hunters. Of course we are not vegan, but this does not mean that we hate those who do not think like us.