The music always remains the same
The Association for Rural Culture has already warned the Government and the national Parliament that it will be ready to organize a large mobilization of the Italian rural world which will culminate with a large national demonstration in Rome in the next weeks. We do not want to helplessly witness the confirmation of the adage "the players change but the music always remains the same". Too often in the past, ministers and undersecretaries have changed but the same bureaucrats have always been in charge and have assumed greater power than that of the ministers. We are not willing to accept the concept according to which "Politics passes but bureaucracy remains".
A proposal not to be shared
The rural world disdainfully refuses to share a Wolf Plan proposal that is currently circulating among ministerial buildings. Our clear refusal is motivated by the ideological approach with which this Plan was conceived, according to which people must get used to coexistence with wolves, especially if these people are shepherds, farmers, dairy farmers, breeders. We start from the assumption according to which, if the incompatibility between the presence of people and the presence of wolves is noted, people must leave our territory, because, according to animal-environmentalists, wolves are reclaiming their territory that had been wrongly taken from them by humans. The Wolf Plan is not even conceived to safeguard wolves but to protect the interests of the "wolf hunters", always ready to share the huge multi-million dollar funding of Life projects.
Ministerial bureaucrats
If Italy wants to equip itself with an adequate national plan for the management and containment of large carnivores, to correctly apply the art. 16 of the Habitats Directive 92/43/EEC, must be disposed of without hesitation. The Wolf Plan was prepared by ministerial bureaucrats with the connivance of those who want to take over the management of the compensation procedures for the victims of wolf predation. The Italian Government and Parliament must completely change their ideological approach, putting in the foreground the protection of the eco system which necessarily involves the protection of our farmers, our breeders, our mountain farmers, our shepherds. In this phase in which the extinction of wolves has been averted, we must avoid the otherwise inevitable extinction of all our bearers of rural culture who have always guaranteed the maintenance and protection of our territory (Hon. Sergio Berlato – Deputy Italian in the European Parliament and National President of the Association for Rural Culture).