The consultation table recently set up by the President Enrico Rossi on the critical issues related to the wildlife hunting management in Tuscany, was greeted by Confederation of Tuscan Hunters, as a useful opportunity to address and deepen the qualifying points of a new perspective for hunting in Tuscany. A few days after the general opening of hunting, the limits of wildlife management and above all the serious crisis that is affecting the small sedentary game, highlight the urgency of addressing and putting hand to radical choices also regarding the role and functions of public and private wildlife institutes.
Our position is to accelerate the discussion on the new Regional Hunting Wildlife Plan and to fix in it the management guidelines and any re-measurement or transformation of the Faunal Institutes. A clear no, to the revival of a method applied up to now by the Tuscany Region, which focuses on the approval of “excerpt” measures in the absence of a general vision. The last of these was the one on the delimitation of the new Areas dedicated to wild boar, given birth without the involvement of hunting and agricultural associations and which is causing in the territories and in the work of some ATC Tuscany, difficulties and disputes with the districts and boar hunting teams. Our request for a radical change of approach seems to have been rejected; other clouds are looming on the horizon! In these hours, inadmissible proposals concerning the Restocking and Capture Areas; in fact, some deliberative proposals have been presented by the competent Offices that provide for the transformation of all the Restocking and Capture Areas present on the regional territory (except those present in the areas subject to SIR or Natura 2000 Network) in hunting areas.
A proposal that is unbelievable not only for regulatory reasons, but above all for the consequences it could cause from the faunal and environmental point of view. We just want to remember that between the two types of structures (ZRC and ZRV) the law provides for extremely diversified functions and purposes. The ZRCs notoriously play a conservative and maintenance role for sedentary wildlife, following management logics focused on the maintenance of subjects born and reproduced in the natural state, thus safeguarding a heritage of extreme value. A general transformation of these institutes would therefore lead to considerable damage to biodiversity, as well as the elimination of years of public investments aimed at their function, not to mention the endless legal disputes that would arise with farmers and with the owners of agricultural land, for the procedures of publicity and transparency provided for by the law. In the next meeting that will certainly be scheduled shortly by the Presidency of the Regional Council, the Confederation of Tuscan Hunters will undertake to strongly represent the total opposition on this delicate problem, and to clearly reiterate the need already put forward several times, for a rapid consultation and approval of the new Regional Wildlife Plan.