Tuscany: Controlled hunting area in Follonica (GR), Federcaccia in favor, Cpa (Caccia Pesca Ambiente) against
The novelties concerning the hunting art that the Municipality of Follonica wants to introduce have created a lot of noise in the last month. Already at the beginning of last February the Municipality of Follonica had advanced the hypothesis of creating a controlled hunting area (ZPC). Only in that area, located in Martellino near Follonica, would hunting be allowed. The hunters, represented in particular by the Cpa hunting fishing environment association and by the Italian hunting federation Fidc, made themselves heard. Hunters do not want to feel relegated to a cave in order to practice their activity, they do not want to feel closed as if they were in an enclosure.
The municipality in these protests affirms that it does not have this intention at all and only wants to try to manage in the best way an art, that ventaoria, which needs organization and new initiatives in order to be safeguarded in the best way. But the 18 ambushes that should disappear are not forgotten by hunters who do not feel understood by their municipality. They would only like their condition to be considered as it actually is, not as destroyers of the landscape or the quiet of families but as bearers of history and traditions as old as their own land. Yet not the whole world of hunting seems to think this way. Federcaccia sides with the Municipality of Follonica as the choice to create a controlled hunting area would be the direct consequence of the complaints that the hunters themselves have sent to the municipality in recent times. In fact, hunters would have found many difficulties in migratory hunting as well as complained of a state of abandonment in some territories that were first hunting grounds. The constitution of this hunting area would favor the resolution of all these problems. Furthermore, the Federcaccia always states, the permits to restore the stalking have unfortunately all been taken and for this reason having an unassailable hunting area is a step forward towards safeguarding hunting in this territory. Federcaccia invites the other hunting associations to reflect on the situation and to think that it is perhaps the first time that the municipality has given so much weight to the needs of hunters.