The recognized hunting associations (Italian Federation of Hunting, National Free Hunting Association, Enalcaccia, Arcicaccia, AnuuMigratoristi, Italcaccia, Game Producers Authority) and the National Hunting and Nature Committee, gathered in the Unitary Control Room of the hunting world, have returned to urge the Minister of Ecological Transition Roberto Cingolani and Dr. Antonio Maturani of the General Directorate for Naturalistic Heritage on the subject wild dove. In particular, the Cabinet invited the Ministry to express its opposition to an unconditional suspension of the collection of this wild on the occasion of the specific Workshop for Adaptive Management of Tortora Collection organized for the days of Monday 10, Tuesday 11 and Wednesday 12 May, which involves the States interested in the Flyway of Central-Eastern Europe, to which Italy also belongs.
In the note sent, the Cabin reminded the Minister that the rules for the collection of the turtle dove in Italy they are the most restrictive in Europe: while other countries authorize the collection as early as August and without annual collection limits, Italy is the only one that allows only a few fixed days of hunting in September, with severely limited game bags, further reduced by the recent proposal of the Environment Commission of the State Regions Conference. It was underlined that the hunting world is actually the only one to take on the environmental improvements useful to the species.
The approval of the National Management Plan of the turtle dove could also allow the implementation of environmental measures on a national scale and, also in this case, the hunters could stimulate the agricultural world to implement also CAP measures useful to the species. For this reason, the control room asked Minister Cingolani to address the position of his Dicastery in this workshop as contrary to the proposal to suspend the collection of wild turtledove and to support a more sustainable position, which includes a decrease in game bags on the entire Flyway through measures to be applied in particular in other countries, such as the reduction of the hunting period and the days allowed, as well as the adoption of annual collection limits.