ACR: "Government wants to remove 16 huntable species from the list"

In addition to Pavoncella, Moriglione and Tortora Selvatica, there are many others due to the state of conservation.

March 24 2021

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After Lapwing (Vanellus vanellus) e Pochard (Aythya ferina) the newborn Ministry of Ecological Transition is planning to have the wild turtledove (Streptopelia turtur) and others removed from the list of huntable species 16 currently huntable species in Italy. Using the pretext of a recommendation issued by the European Commission to all Member States asking them to take adequate measures to ensure the conservation of these species considered in decline or in a poor state of conservation, the former Ministry of the Environment (today the Ministry of Ecological Transition) is creating the conditions to favor the exclusion of these 19 species from the list of species currently envisaged as normally huntable by art. 18 of the state law n. 157/92 and included inAnnex II part A and part B of Directive 2009/147 / EC.

As happened for the Lapwing and Pochard species, the wild dove also runs the risk of ending up in the same way and, subsequently, also the other 16 species. The excuse used to justify this blitz would be this: not having been adopted for these species an adequate management plan, prepared by the Government and approved by the State / Regions Conference, hunting must be suspended because it is considered an unsustainable activity and detrimental to the conservation of these species. The species in odor of exclusion from the list of huntable species in Italy are, as well as Lapwing, Pochard and Wild Tortora:

- Gadwall (Anas strepera);
- Codon (Anas acuta);
- Garganey (Anas querquedula);
- Shoveler (Anas clypeata);
- Tufted duck (Aythya fuligula);
- Black grouse (Tetrao tetrix);
- Red partridge (Alectoris rufa);
- Sardinian partridge (Alectoris barbara);
- Rock partridge (Alectoris graeca);
- Gray Partridge (Perdix perdix);
- Quail (Coturnix coturnix);
- Fighter (Philomachus pugnax);
- Whisk (Lymnocryptes minimus);
- Woodcock (Scolopax rusticula);
- Common snipe (Gallinago gallinago);
- Skylark (Alauda arvensis)

At this point, theAssociation for Rural Culture you ask:
Because this deafening silence continues to reign among many representatives of the Italian hunting world who, while aware of the danger that hunting in Italy is running, pretend not to see or, worse, make secret agreements with the enemy to try to reduce the harm? We would not want anyone to even try to agree with the enemy on a strategy that could lead us to consumerist hunting and privatism for the benefit of a few privileged wealthy people but to the detriment of the overwhelming majority of Italian hunters. Representatives of the Italian hunting world have a duty to tell their associates how they intend to behave for react to these attacks which, in an increasingly arrogant and systematic way, are launched against the hunt and all other activities carrying rural culture (Hon. Sergio Berlato - President of the Association for Rural Culture).

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Ferdinando Ratti, provincial president of Italcaccia Como-Lecco says:

4 years ago

You see Mr Berlato, in some municipal meetings in the house of the large association, it has already been mentioned that the future of hunting will be reduced to 5 pheasants € 100 (strictly ready-made French hunting)
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