As reiterated on several occasions by the Confederation of Tuscan Hunters, the future of the relationship between hunters and farmers will have to be based on a new system agreement who knows how to transform the potential elements of tension between the two worlds, into opportunities and collaborations aimed at safeguarding and enhancing common goods such as wildlife and the territory. There New Community Agricultural Policy and the huge resources allocated to the Ecological Transition, require common planning and new synergies to transform the relationship between hunting and agriculture, in a virtuous challenge starting from the experience that we will be able to build in our region. The controversy that has arisen in Pistoia, demonstrates how it is necessary to leave behind a climate, which we hope will soon be removed, in favor of constructive processes of common interest.
Below is the statement in reply to Hi Tuscany published by Federcaccia: We read with some amazement, the Communiqué of the Cia Toscana released a few days ago following what happened within the ATC Pistoia 11, on the selection of wild boar. Beyond the technical discussion, on a provision created also to meet the needs of the agricultural world and for a correct wildlife management of the species, the thing that most displeases us is that we try to place responsibility or rather accusations on Federcaccia, which we reject with decision and firmness.
An alarmism, the one launched by the Cia Toscana, on the damage caused by ungulates to agricultural crops, which we do not agree with and which appears to us to be truly ungenerous and out of place, especially if compared to a reality, that of the Pistoia ATC which has long since reached levels of substantial equilibrium, on a delicate and complex problem. Generate alarms and instrumental attacks on a territorial reality that finds damage from wild boar in dedicated area not exceeding 5.000 euros and which for years has not exceeded 50.000 euros for the entire territory of the ATC, honoring without delay the liquidation of the damages themselves in terms of law, frankly it seems paradoxical and out of place.
Thanks to the work of Federcaccia and its representatives within the Management Committee, ATC has long been committed to providing operational responses to these problems and to ensuring the maximum of resources that can be allocated to the works and prevention activities in the event of damage itself in the more sensitive areas. Having requested a stop on an application provision of some forms of withdrawal, to better evaluate its best application, it certainly cannot be represented as an act of hostility towards farmers, nor of irresponsibility towards businesses and their families. However, it is not the intention of the Tuscan Federcaccia to expire or worse still, to fuel a controversy on a specific fact, to transform it into yet another opportunity for a clash between worlds, hunting and agriculture, which must necessarily re-tie the threads of dialogue and constructive confrontation at the regional level, in the general interest.
On our part, we have made specific commitments with Councilor Saccardi and with the Tuscany Region, starting from the foundations of a timely discussion on the new Regional Hunting Wildlife Plan and on the new perspectives that will concern the Rural Development Plan and the opportunities put in place by the CAP reform and more generally by Europe. The appeal we therefore address to Cia Toscana, as indeed to all the components of the agricultural world, is to abandon defensive and demanding attitudes, to devote more energy to a new common project aimed at the prospects and opportunities that await us. Together and not against, hunters and farmers will be able to generate virtuous policies, activate real resources for the territory, quality agriculture and wildlife management. Of this, we are and remain firmly and stubbornly convinced. This is why we want to consider the tones, a slip that Cia Toscana can and will certainly be able to remedy.