I have never liked the internal controversies in our world and very rarely have I devoted time to try to clarify ideas to those who demonstrated with their statements that they had confused them a little or, even worse, that I wanted to artfully confuse them with others. Today, however, I read the utterances of the President of ANLC Paolo Sparvoli and of the European Parliamentarian Sergio Berlato, President of Confavi, arising after the statements by the President of FIDC Massimo Buconi regarding the initiative taken by Legambiente against the hunted hunting.
Since these gentlemen (Sparvoli and Berlato) also bring me up personally (recalling - unfortunately inappropriately - the Memorandum of Understanding with Legambiente signed in 2014), I consider it appropriate to provide everyone with some clarifications and, above all, to refresh the memory of someone who declares to have it long but, in fact, it proves to have it long only in fits and starts or only when it thinks it might be convenient for her.
Briefly I would like to remind everyone - and in particular Sparvoli and Berlato - that the much criticized by them Memorandum of Understanding signed with Legambiente:
1) did not concern and has never concerned any issue related to hunting activity;
2) concerned only the planning of common initiatives aimed at the conservation of natural environments and fauna to defend the fauna from the main environmental, social and economic threats (land consumption, loss of species and habitats, alien species, water crisis, pollution, fires, climate change, etc.) and to prevent damage caused by wildlife to the environment and agricultural crops;
3) has aroused great interest, attention and sharing to the point that very important things have developed for Italian hunters: the production chain linked to hunting has grasped its importance and has taken steps to concretely support even wider relationships with other social realities interested; Universities have approached (Milan, Naples, Urbino, Pollenzo, etc.); Federparchi approached; Coldiretti approached; common projects of great interest to all have been developed and shared, such as the ungulate database, the game meat sector and models of wildlife management; thanks to AGI, the positive role of hunting and hunters has been given media coverage.
Perhaps Sparvoli and Berlato are not interested in these objectives or do they think they are not of interest to Italian hunters?
Maybe they really think it is scandalous to try to prosecute them in agreement with those who do not have a hunting card in their pocket but an environmental card?
Maybe they really think it's like trying to put the devil and holy water together and fear a worse contagion than COVID 19?
Maybe they really think that hunting defends itself by keeping the barricades between our world and the environmentalist world and, more generally, society as a whole?
Not me: these goals interest me.
I do not find it scandalous but intelligent and useful to try to involve and "exploit" environmentalists, I am not afraid of contagion, but I hope that we can infect them, I think the barricades are stupid and instead it is appropriate to try to integrate ourselves truly and fully with society.
But then, I wonder, why go back to fomenting criticism and divisions within us when we should all have the same target in our sights, that is, who fired the usual anti-hunting bullshit?
This is a failed policy that repeats the mistakes of the past and that would need an apology.
The only answer I see to this question, even if I don't like it at all, is that it is only repeated instrumental criticisms aimed, in reality, only to try to make a few more cards or to win a bit of political consensus.
We of the ANUUMigratorists do not.
We want to give hunting a future.
We are not interested in card hunting, we have no political ambitions and no other general or personal interests of any kind.
We let the hunters judge us for our work and we do not criticize the work of others, except on occasions like this that involve the need for genuine self-defense.
I and my Association, the ANUUMigratoristi, only intend to work to bring hunting head-on in society, continuing to pursue the goal of a true unity of the hunting world, continuing to hope that as soon as possible we can really bring together all the Italian hunters under a single and new flag, an absolutely necessary condition to strengthen our ability to establish solid external alliances (the agricultural world, the world of science, schools and young people, the world of communication, the environmental world), to communicate and integrate with society and to increasingly develop scientific research as a credible and authoritative basis for our claims regarding huntable species, harvesting periods and traditional hunts.
It is said that ideas walk on men's legs.
Never as in this story is this true.
Marco Castellani
President of ANUUMigrators
Don't climb the mirrors
With certain associations you are NOT allied