Arci Caccia: Piedmont, "Hunting and Fauna, there is a lot to do and a lot to change ”; great participation in the regional conference held on 7 March in Alexandria.
Rich in content was the Regional Conference promoted by ARCI Caccia on the theme of fauna management and hunting in Piedmont, held on Saturday 7 March in the hall of the Province of Alessandria. Great was the representation of the Association, with delegates from all provinces and a highly qualified presence of representatives of regional and national institutions. The works began with a report by Mario Bruciamacchie, Regional Honorary President of ARCI Caccia, who put to the debate the themes of the enhancement of the regional wildlife heritage - one of the richest in Italy -, of how it can be managed in the interest of the whole community by allowing a planned hunting exercise, and how this wealth can have positive repercussions on the economic level.
The strong numerical growth of boars and roe deer and other ungulates strongly poses the problem of their correct management, as their impact on the environment and especially on agricultural crops is very heavy, and causes high damage that affects farmers' incomes. It is urgent to put in place effective practices of prevention and numerical containment of these species, and the planned hunting is useful and indispensable for the safeguard of agricultural productions. The meat of hoofed game can become an interesting economic resource through the creation of a supply chain that allows the marketing and food consumption of this highly prized meat. The crisis experienced by some species of fauna such as hares, pheasants, partridge etc ...
ARCI Caccia's proposals are very precise. It is necessary that the Restocking and Capture Areas are places of production of these species to give self-sufficiency to each ATC and CA, to repopulate their planned hunting territories by putting an end to the restocking carried out with farm animals, good only for feeding foxes and corvids, wasting hunters' money and disqualifying hunting activities. It is time to say enough to this nefarious practice. The Regional Councilor for Agriculture, Hunting and Fishing Giorgio Ferrero - present at the conference and intervened in the debate - was asked to promote specific projects in agreement with the Provinces, the ATCs and the CAs, engaging competent technicians and mobilizing regional economic resources and European.
They can be projects of great significance, capable of enhancing the environment and the territory, of supporting the agricultural enterprise, of allowing a compatible presence of fauna and an environmentally friendly hunting exercise. A sore point is the lack of a regional law on wildlife protection and hunting, after the Regional Law 70/96 was abolished in a foolish way. Without regional law one is always exposed to continuous appeals to the Regional Administrative Court and to the invalidation of regional resolutions.
The ARCI Caccia, together with the other hunting associations, has put forward precise proposals of content; now the Councilor, the Executive and the Regional Council are expected to work rapidly. The role of ATCs and CAs was also examined, highlighting how unfortunately many are not doing well. The programmatic and planning skills are almost nil; participation and discussion with farmers and hunters are not promoted, information is zero. These institutes are limited to distributing regional cards, charging the entry fees to the hunting area, and buying farmed fauna. If they do not change the way they operate, they are headed for a deep crisis.
According to ARCI Caccia, on the other hand, ATCs and CAs must be relaunched as instances capable of managing their territories from an environmental and wildlife point of view, putting qualified people and non-personalities to direct them who guarantee at most packages of membership cards. The Regional Hunting Wildlife Plan has to be approved; the new Hunting Calendar to be discussed on the merits; to examine how the typical alpine fauna is managed etc ...
ARCI Caccia will present proposals to the Region on specific days, including useful actions to contain rapidly expanding predatory species such as foxes, now also almost urbanized, and corvids, which particularly affect small fauna. From this conference an offensive made up of proposals to the Region, the Provinces, the ATCs and the CAs, so that things change for the better. There is also a great initiative of confrontation with the agricultural world, our first ally, with the scientific world, with the other hunting associations and the non-anti-hunt environmentalist world. We intend to speak to society as a whole, to make it clear that the management of fauna, done in a serious way, makes it possible to practice hunting as a passion and useful activity to safeguard the environment, agricultural crops and to restore the now altered balance between species.
The Regional Councilor Ferrero, the Regional Councilors Ravetti and Ottria, the parliamentarians Borioli and Fornaro, the manager of the Province Dr. Coffano, Dr. Castellano della Confagricoltura and what extremely welcome and important, the Honorable Enrico Morando, Deputy Minister of Economy of the Renzi Government. Provincial leaders intervened in the debate, as well as the Honorable Lino Rava, former Councilor for Agriculture, Hunting and Fishing of the Province of Alessandria, Dr. Sorrentino - National Vice President - and Osvaldo Veneziano, National President of ARCI Caccia. moreover, he proceeded to renew the offices of the Association by electing Lino Rava as Regional President and a presidency composed of Mario Bruciamacchie, Giovanni Ansicche, Remo Calcagno, Ezio Cardinale.
(March 14, 2015)
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