Arci Caccia: in Turin a conference on the management of the wildlife heritage, with environmentalists, hunters, technicians, researchers.
Friday 10 May, at the Fabbrica delle "E", Room 8 March, corso Trapani 95, environmentalists, hunters, wildlife technicians and university researchers discuss for a new model of wildlife management and natural environments that brings a subject back to the scientific bed which must belong to all citizens. In the morning, interventions on the management models of wild animals and their environments are scheduled.
In the afternoon, a Round Table will be held to indicate to politics a way forward for the management of the common good-wildlife, which will be attended by: Massimo Buconi, National Vice President Federcaccia; Riccardo Fortina, President of WWF Piedmont; Antonino Morabito, National Wildlife Manager Legambiente; Giovanni Rolle Head of Wildlife Management Coldiretti Turin; Osvaldo Veneziano National President of Arci Caccia; Dario Zocco, Director of the Po and Orba River Park. The starting point is a document drawn up by a group of experts in environmental issues who decided to meet to discuss an approach to wildlife and naturalistic issues according to a scientific environmentalism.
The document relaunches wildlife management and has been signed by a large part of the Piedmontese technical-naturalistic world committed every day to study nature, to preserve it, to investigate the problems of its management, to suggest rules to policy to safeguard a heritage, in fact , of all of us humans.
That document aims to be the basis for an open discussion between the environmentalist world, the scientific-university world, parks, agriculture, the hunting world and politics. The assumption is that the law considers animals and the natural environment as unavailable assets of the state, and therefore of the communities.
Overcoming the sterile emotional opposition between animalism and wildlife commodifiers is the way to go if we want to keep our wildlife heritage in balance with the rest of the natural heritage. An environmentalism that does not follow animalism in a manner but that deals with the management of this collective heritage in a scientific and pragmatic way is the only one capable of truly protecting nature and giving it to subsequent generations of humans. An environmentalism that fully recognizes the task of safeguarding and cultivating nature is the only one capable of promoting concrete policies for the restoration of ecosystems and their maintenance.
The event of the failed regional referendum on hunting, which inflamed the political debate in spring 2012, made it clear to everyone that the issues related to the management of natural environments cannot be left to emotional and affective approaches that have nothing to do with logic. of nature and that move away from improvement and active management policies.
From that clash that left neither winners nor losers, there is a risk of generating a stalemate where only nature and animals lose out. From the fear that has been generated of getting burned again with issues related to the protection of fauna and its management, politics only risks paralysis.
Arci National Hunting
(May 8, 2013)