Exactly 54 years
Today, the 54th Earth Day is celebrated around the world - Earth Day – the most celebrated "day" at an international level among the many dedicated to environmental issues, perhaps because it contains within it everything that concerns our common home and those who live in it. Officially founded on 22 April 1970 to raise awareness on the issues of environmental sustainability, protection and safeguarding of the planet, against the risks of neglect, abandonment, pollution of air, water, soil, hydrogeological instability, overbuilding, anthropisation.
This year's theme
This year's theme is "Earth against plastic" to focus on the recovery and use of less impactful and recyclable materials. A serious problem, the tip of the iceberg of which, somewhat simplistically but equally immediately perceivable by anyone, is represented by all the bottles and wrappings that we find everywhere when we frequent not only green public spaces, but also countryside and woods. They represent the most common waste - but also that which would be easier to take to the right domestic collection points - which on every environmental day organized as hunters we find among the dozens and dozens of quintals of waste collected. But in addition to the objective chosen for this edition, Federcaccia and the hunters have always been attentive to environmental issues, the protection of biodiversity and the protection of territories and wild species.
The role of hunters
As frequenters of the woods and nature, we are well aware of all the risks it runs and how rapidly it has changed, accelerating further in recent years despite all the effort placed on these critical issues. Because who knows the territory and all the attacks it suffers better than us hunters? We observe and suffer them in person, not just through magazines or smartphone screens. This is why this Earth Day is also our day. Because as we like to say, the environment belongs to those who practice it and not to those who preach it: we do it today, as on all the other days of the year. Because nature, to know it, love it and protect it, must be experienced and frequented, always, in every season. And we express our attention and gratitude for the Earth, whose fruits we enjoy and take with respect, in a sustainable and regulated way, not by limiting ourselves to celebrations but by living in the territories, perpetuating rites and values of that rurality which thanks to the link with the nature were born and have been handed down (source: FIDC).