The Tuscan territory, our countryside and the most evocative landscapes that make the our region, they are also the result of man's work and his ability to shape with his own activities, a common good with respect, harmony, care and conservation of the natural environment.
Chianti, its hills, woods mixed with vineyards, olive groves and cereals, certainly represent a testimony of how for centuries agriculture has been able to coexist and adapt to a territory with the ability to combine the right production needs with the beauty of the places. .
For these and other reasons, we hunters will certainly not want to open useless controversies or specious conflicts with the agricultural world on the need, in some cases absolutely legitimate, of defense by the farmer of his crops and the income that derives from them. Hunting has always been part of a system of relationships strongly innervated with rurality and good wildlife management, it can draw strong benefits from the work of hunters also in terms of prevention and control of wild populations and their impact on the damage caused to the agriculture.
Today, however, we are witnessing a phenomenon that does not always find justifications in this complicated search for a balance between different reasons but on the contrary, it feeds on alleged needs to cause havoc in the landscape and impracticability of not only hunting in the agro-forestry pastoral territory.
We refer to the indiscriminate proliferation of fences, small and large that are increasingly "strangling" a large part of our Chianti and which have the brutal face of a deformed and amorphous "grid" that appears more the result of an unnatural defense against the " humans ”and their presence other than for what could be the right needs for the prevention of damage by wildlife.
Fences of many hectares, without the possibility of crossing due to the lack of gates or other accesses, follow one another in the territory remaining fixed and perennial over time even in the absence of active agriculture or pending fruit.
A cry of pain but also a strong call to the institutions was launched in recent weeks by the Circolo ARCT / CCT of S.Casciano Val di Pesa (FI) with an open letter sent to local institutions, to the Tuscany region and to all interested parties. .
An appeal that was born with the aim of sensitizing politics and institutions to take charge of the management of a problem that today actually prevents the carrying out of the hunting activity but which in turn certainly generates negative repercussions on the landscape, on the beauty of the places and on the culture of those who live there.
In the articulated document, the hunters ask to evaluate the need for a more precise and specific legislation that guarantees agricultural needs but also those of hunting and all those who, in compliance with the rules, want to enjoy the environment and the territory.
A greater importance is also required of the role of the Municipalities and of the authorization procedures to avoid an indiscriminate and unjustified proliferation of more or less large fences, taking great care that the types of fences and the network itself, allow the crossing of small game as well as guarantee suitable access points to the funds concerned, especially in the absence of existing crops and subject to damage (source: CCT).