Arci Caccia and Italian Confederation of Farmers Benevento, hunters and farmers, side by side for a correct management of the hunting activity.
Arci Caccia and CIA of Benevento have signed a pact that seals the union of aims and methods in the field of hunting. Resolution of the problem of damage to crops and compliance with the collection plans established by the Province at the center of the meeting. Hunters and farmers side by side for a correct management of the hunting activity able to represent an added value and an opportunity for the multifunctional agriculture typical of the Samnite territory. Arci Caccia and CIA of Benevento have signed a pact that establishes the union of intentions and methodologies in the field of hunting.
The presidents, Luigi Luongo for Arci Caccia and Alessandro Mastrocinque for the CIA, signed the agreement. Both agreed that proper wildlife management can bring benefits to both categories, starting from the solution of the problem of damage to crops. Respect for the collection plans established by the Province, overall management of the territory and great commitment to prevention are therefore the main guidelines at the center of the pact signed by Arci Caccia and CIA of Benevento.
The new regional regulations now give the possibility of an overall management of the territory with regard to ungulates and therefore there are finally the tools for a concrete re-equilibrium of the fauna. The solution to the damage problem, however, must necessarily pass from close collaboration between the parties concerned and not through demagogic measures that we risk only exacerbating divisions and misunderstandings.
During the meeting, the two associations focused above all on the prospects to be given in the Province of Benevento to hunting and wildlife management, while at the same time enhancing the volunteer work put in place by hunters and the potential of farms. It is necessary that the Provincial Administration immediately present the strategic and programmatic lines of the New Provincial Wildlife Plan, activating, at the same time, all the tools and in-depth tables between the categories concerned.
The New Plan will have to represent a useful tool for overcoming the limits of the past and relaunching with experimentation new forms of management for wildlife and environmental purposes. This is a challenge that must be met and won with the new ATC management committees.
One of the most qualifying points of this strategy will be to involve farms in the management of small sedentary fauna and in particular of public wildlife institutes through specific framework agreements that provide for the remuneration of the farms themselves based on the results achieved and with multi-year contracts for the implementation of environmental improvements.
In the same way, Arci Caccia and CIA think that the time has come to create more advanced experimental management areas in the province of small noble sedentary fauna where the agricultural enterprise will be able to play a fundamental role. The environmental value of the presence of fauna on the territories is also of considerable importance in order to implement forms of environmental - faunistic tourism through the network of agritourisms and organize hunting users from other regions in the same structures.
These in synthesis are the elements that emerged from an open and articulated comparison that laid the foundations for creating a new pact between agriculture and hunting in which everyone, in his own specificity, can be the actor of a new season where, from a correct wildlife management, everyone can benefit from it.
11 January 2014
Source: NTR24