Il WWF it presented its observations and announced appeals in the field of hunting and hunting hunting calendar. Here is what we read in the note of the association: “Those who expected greater sensitivity on issues relating to the protection of wildlife were immediately disappointed. On the first occasion, that of the presentation of the hunting calendar proposal for the 2019-2010 season, we have seen a clear worsening of the protections for huntable species ”, said Filomena Ricci, regional delegate of WWF Abruzzo.
The proposed calendar under discussion aims to lengthen the hunting season for almost all huntable species, but not only: it also provides for the hunting of two species (lapwing and pochard) that the Ministry of the Environment and the Protection of the Territory and the Sea has asked the Regions to exclude from their respective hunting calendars following the evaluation of an unfavorable state of conservation. The Board Marsilio-Imprudent wants to grant the early opening of hunting in September to as many as 23 species! “No one had ever dared so much! Other provisions are contained in the proposed hunting calendar such as the elimination of many seasonal and daily game boxes (fundamental tool for exercising control over hunting activities) and the cancellation of some forecasts of minimum distances where hunting can be practiced.
Some limitations that have always been accorded to areas of greatest environmental value such as sites of community interest also disappear special protection areas. The recommendations regarding the ban on abandoning cartridges and the ban on hunting in areas affected by fires disappear. With this proposal, the new Regional Council intends to cancel in one fell swoop all the positive innovations achieved thanks to the judgments of the administrative judges who in the last fifteen years they have almost always rejected pro-hunting policies of the various regional administrations that have followed one another. In short, more than a proposal for a hunting calendar it seems a provocation aimed at the Abruzzo natural environment.
The WWF Abruzzo presented its observations requesting, among other things, the single general opening on XNUMX October, the reduction of hunting periods, the elimination of hunting in February and the restoration of daily and seasonal game bags. "The proposed hunting calendar of the Region does not stand up", declares Dante Caserta, vice president of WWF Italy. "We expect ISPRA, the only national institution that by law issues mandatory opinions to the Regions on each hunting calendar, do not validate this hunting calendar which will necessarily have to be revised. If it remains so, we will be forced once again to resort to the Regional Administrative Court ".