Biodiversity | This is what emerged during the conference promoted by the Hon. Pietro Fiocchi, MEP of the ECR Group, held in February in Turin in the presence of Authorities, Trade Associations and citizens, including numerous hunters and fishermen. Both from the technical-scientific reports and from the round table that followed, which was attended by representatives of the Institutions and exponents of the Agricultural, Hunting and Environmentalist Associations, the theme of biodiversity, its management and conservation, was addressed and debated. A detailed and defined picture of the issue emerged, in particular with respect to the problematic and invasive species under multiple aspects that await the relative solutions.
Everyone agreed that the time has come for a targeted resolution of problems, not left to itself, but the result of the skills of man who is an integral part of biodiversity and the most advanced on the planet. Once the problems have been focused, with numerous data and scientific studies already available, the whole picture must be placed before the institutions in charge, the administrations, the policy which so far does not seem to want to fully realize the extent of the real situation.
Millions of damages and lost earnings, loss of human life, spread of diseases among the animals themselves, with the real risk of transmitting diseases to humans, which is why the issue cannot be addressed and managed as done so far, but with method and determination. That political will which unfortunately has so far been lacking and still is missing and which is the indispensable condition.
Hon. Fiocchi in his opening and closing speech stressed that the problem in this case is not Europe, but the policy held up to now by our country and the ministries that have responsibility for it. The problem must be posed to those who can and must solve it, in Italy he concluded: we are too permeated by the "politically correct" that often affects everyone, especially the work of those who govern us. Thus the problems are not solved, but only produce useless compromises.