Reading the press release released by Federcaccia Marche on March 8, it comes naturally to offer our solidarity to the Regional President of the major association. We understand the need for visibility which reigns in this pre-electoral phase in the mind of the FIDC Regional President Paolo Antognoni (in fact, the FIDC Regional Assembly will soon meet to elect the new Council and the FIDC Marche Regional President) and we understand the tension that is gripping him.
Having said this, we can only thank him for having disseminated our proposal for the Marche Hunting Calendar 19/20 all over the country. We want to reiterate it: we firmly believe that Arci Caccia's proposal is "attentive to the conservation and management needs of wildlife" as well as being "socially and politically balanced". This especially in light of the vicissitudes that occurred to the Calendar "Best in Italy" approved last Hunting Season and containing all the requests of President Antognoni. A calendar that deprived us of the opportunity to hunt vulnerable SCI and SPA as it was appeals to the Marche Regional Administrative Court and the Council of State presented and won by environmental and animal welfare associations.
In the interest of hunting and hunters, for which Arci Caccia fights and works with concreteness, commitment and enthusiasm, without chasing easy populisms and promises that are difficult, if not impossible, to keep, we hope the establishment of a "control room" that unites the strengths and skills of all stakeholders in the Marche region. A common table, as already exists at the national level, and not further divisions, which are the main cause of the weakening of our category.
For the next hunting season we would therefore be pleased, from a constructive point of view, share our ideas, not only on the Calendar proposal, with FIDC Marche, instead of wasting time in raising controversy that no good leads to hunting. We just have to do the President Paolo Antognoni a big good luck for the next regional elections of FIDC Marche and for a future hunting season full of… fighters. However, we remain at the disposal of any hunter who desires or even has the curiosity to have clarifications on how and why, and on the basis of which officially validated scientific knowledge and data, Arci Caccia has formulated its calendar proposal.