The term of validity of the Veneto Regional Wildlife-Hunting Plan 2007-2012, already subject to extension in previous years and expiring on 31th December, was further extended to August 31th, 2021. This is the outcome of the work of the Venetian Legislative Assembly which approved by a majority the Bill no. 12, aimed at restating the validity of the Plan in question. The PDL originally contained the proposal to extend the Plan until 10 February 2021, but it was definitively established on 31 August, following the majority approval of an amendment illustrated in the Chamber by the councilor Cristiano Corazzari, in view of the presentation of the new PFV.
The speaker Giuseppe Pan, former councilor for hunting in the previous legislature and today Head of the Liga Veneta in the Council, after having reconstructed the national and regional regulatory sources underlying the proposal, recalled the role of hunting, hunters, in particular of the selecontrollers and of those who are employed in activities related to the control of opportunists, as well as hunting associations, understood as trained collaborators of bodies and institutions, and briefly anticipated some contents of the next Wildlife Hunting Plan, such as the schemes and the methods of constitution of the territorial hunting areas o hunting density indices: the further extension will allow the presentation of the new Plan in the course of next spring.
With regard to the provision, the majority directors Elisa Venturini (Forza Italia) and Joe Formaggio (Fratelli d'Italia) also intervened. The minority co-rapporteur, Councilor Cristina Guarda of Europa Verde has stigmatized the continuous extension, year after year, of the Wildlife Hunting Plan approved by the regional law of 2007: "A 13-year old plan, repeated for another 8", an aspect also underlined by the Councilor Andrea Zanoni (Democratic Party) who further highlighted the absence from the Plan of elements such as the territory consumed by overbuilding, for example due to the construction of infrastructures such as the Valdastico Sud or the Pedemontana, or the absence of species such as Bear, Wolf, Lynx or Nutria as well the impossibility, in fact, due to the repetition of the Plan, to allow individuals to exercise the right, provided for by the hunting regulations, to request a ban on hunting on their own land: in this sense, an amendment proposed in the Chamber by the two Councilors was rejected by the majority.
Skepticism about the possibility that the deadline of 31 August 2021 is preparatory to the presentation of the new Plan has been expressed on several occasions by the Director Jonatan Montanariello (PD); Councilor Vanessa Camani also expressed the hope that the debate that will follow the presentation of the new Plan it does not end in “a derby between hunters and environmentalists”, given its particular complexity.