National Park: Territorial Hunting Area MS 13: It is not ATC's competence to express opinions on the extension of the Apennine National Park.
The Atc 13 Management Committee of Massa Carrara responds to the proposal of the coordinator of Hunting and Environment, Valerio Ercolini after the proposal to hold a popular referendum to downsize the Parks. Valerio Poi, President Atc 13: “It is not up to the Committee to express positions on the choices of destination and governance of the territory”.
“It is not the competence of the Territorial Hunting Area to express positions on the general choices of destination and governance of the territory”. The Management Committee of the Atc 13 of Massa Carrara returns to the theme of the expansion of the borders of the National Park of the Apennines ventilated in recent weeks by the municipal administration of Pontremoli by responding to a letter from the provincial coordinator of Hunting and Environment, Valerio Ercolini.
Ercolini had launched the idea of a popular referendum to downsize the parks in our territory as a response to the initiative of the mayor of the Pontremoli municipality, Franco Gussoni. “It is not part of our duties and powers to express positions on the overall choices of local government - explains Valerio Poi, President of the Atc 13 Ms -.
On a technical level, however, I must point out that a further enlargement of the borders of the Apennine National Park would certainly represent a problem not only for the hunting activity (also in relation to the legal obligations relating to the rights of hunters - see minimum percentage of territory that Law reserves to hunting activities-), but also from the point of view of the containment of wild boars and other ungulates which, as repeatedly stressed, and on several occasions, enjoy the immunity of non-huntability within the boundaries of the Park ".
Then he suggests that he was surprised by the formalization of the proposal by the Mayor of Pontremoli: "on a personal level, and as a Pontremoliese, I followed the story, and I remember well what were the commitments undertaken by the current administration at the time of the elections . The commitment was not to address this issue in this legislature ”.
Andrew Berti