FACE Italia and CNCN: on the Venatori Calendars and appeals to the Tar by environmentalists, Wwf in primis, disinformation and propaganda.
Much confusion and the usual exaggerations in the statement released today by the WWF according to which 11 regions were rejected by the TAR in the field of hunting following appeals to the Regional Administrative Courts by the same environmental association during the hunting season just ended. Things are not exactly as you would like us to believe and in the face of numerous environmental appeals, often instrumental and aimed only at trying to obtain suspensions to "buy time" by making practitioners lose legitimate hunting days, the response of the Tar or the Council of State has gone exactly in the opposite direction to that desired by them.
The WWF, for example, mentions Veneto, but is careful not to say that all the appeals presented against pre-openings, closing dates and huntable species have been rejected. Or that the order of the Lazio TAR rejected the appeal on the hunting calendar of this season and that the sentence concerning that of the previous season has justifiably and definitively rejected the appeal, proving its groundlessness.
Or that in some cases, such as Umbria, species such as the moretta were reintroduced, whose sampling was initially suspended due to an appeal that proved unfounded this time as well. But it is also avoided to say that some ordinances in their favor, as in the case of Liguria, are due only to formal vices of reasons and not to have disregarded European standards or Italian laws. In fact, it is good to remember that no Italian Region has violated any European regulation in the drafting of hunting calendars.
For this reason, the WWF would do well to avoid issuing press releases that deal generically and without the necessary in-depth analysis of complex topics with the sole result of creating confusion in the reader. Unless - and unfortunately we fear this is also the case - the only thing you are looking for is not a showcase from which to make misinformation.
1 February 2013
CNC Press OfficeN