“Bandaging your head before breaking it is useless, today the hunting world may have a great opportunity from the inclusion of the environmental protection in the Constitution, you have to know how to grasp it and exploit it to your advantage. " These are the words of the honorable member Marco Dreosto, Vice-President of the Intergroup Hunt for the European Parliament, who adds in a note: "It is then up to politics to legislate accordingly in a rational and coherent way, and now that the hunting world begins to play in the center of the field instead of being on the bench, participating in the decision-making tables, highlighting its management role to the advantage of community".
For Dreosto it is now important to make people understand how the hunting practices, the habitats and the faunal presence itself have evolved and changed over time. “Many things, we know, have changed for the worse, others have improved. What matters to me evident, both as a hunter and as a politician, is the fact that today, finally, the hunting world is demonstrating an ever stronger awareness towards their own managerial role: who better than the hunter knows the territories, the wildlife and the environmental dynamics related to them; he knows well that if the natural environment does not provide animal populations with all necessary conditions, they disappear.
This is why it is committed to environmental improvements, often losing money and free time, doing it not only for itself, but in the general social interest. I therefore urge the hunting leaders to do their best by promoting initiatives, in order to help our world to overcome those cultural resistances that are based on lack of knowledge, of our sector and, above all, of the dynamics that regulate natural balances, which we know and precisely by virtue of the baggage of knowing that it belongs to us, we must ourselves first of all have the courage to claim our role instead, we often feel ashamed of being hunters!
It is in this ambitious goal that I want to be a useful tool for disseminating and promoting the environmental and hunting culture, the true and pragmatic one, which it expresses not only a way of being but above all a way of thinking, with our feet on the ground and looking at reality as we are used to doing. The final aim will be to officially recognize our role as protagonists in the environmental management, as is already the case in many European countries.
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