Fedecaccia replies, together with Arci Caccia and ANUU Migratoristi, to the accusations made against the hunting associations on alleged agreements with "the enemy", represented by those who intend to bury the hunters and hunters; “There is no worse blind than those who do not want to see!”.
As the popular saying goes, in the case of the deaf who do not want to hear, even among the blind the worst are those who just do not want to see. Someone then, in addition to refusing to open their eyes, does everything to throw smoke even in those of the neighbor. This is what once again accuses Federcaccia, together with Arci Caccia and ANUUMigratoristi, of having made a pact with the enemy. And you know, for someone an enemy at hand - associations, councilors, politicians, former fellow travelers - always serves to justify all their inconsistency, at home and outside ... This time, almost a year after it was signed and after it was published and communicated almost everywhere, and especially to members of the signatory associations, someone "noticed" that we made an agreement with Legambiente - not surprisingly the least animal rights activist, not to mention the only one who is not, among the associations that deal with the environment - inviting "promptly" the members of the aforementioned to open their eyes and abandon them immediately. To go where it is evident, even if at least one had the modesty not to write it openly.
That hunters know how to keep their eyes open on their own, it is enough that at the time of renewing their trust by signing the usual card they did so, being well aware of the agreement so wisely "discovered and denounced" by these champions of "purity hunting ". Perhaps because for those who wanted to understand it was enough to read, without stopping at the first line, that work protocol to realize that it is based on objectives that are not only shared by the hunting world, but which must be their own, and which bring an environmental association of first floor to talk about results obtainable through hunting. There is talk of concrete management of fauna, of solving the problem of damage from ungulates, of training and enhancement of skills for the enhancement of the territory, of creating an updated database on fauna and related activities. This, for those who do not think that being a hunter is only pulling the trigger always and in any case and then complaining of not being taken into consideration by civil society, IS TO TALK ABOUT HUNTING.
Objectives, especially those related to the collection of census and killing data, which serve the entire Italian hunting world, those who agree and those who disagree with this collaboration, to catch up the country's delay in this sector. , which continues to suffer from conflict and crisis. Everything else is smoke and mirrors and stale propaganda. No agreement with the enemy, no connivance with those who would like to close the hunt, no compromise in defense of the chair, a furnishing accessory that does not guide the choices and lines of action of Federcaccia executives. Rather a very practical and concrete project, which does not mean abdicating one's ideas or positions on either side, but finding a common ground that is indispensable to both, on which to dialogue and make one's reasons understood.
For this reason, it is possible to work with Legambiente and at the same time defend, reasoning with data and not with ideology, the closing and opening dates for the different species. Managing the territory and at the same time asking for calendars drawn up in compliance with Italian and international regulations that do not give up a day among those allowed. Perhaps accompanying their requests with the data resulting from a collaboration presented as betrayal by those who need any enemy to exist and not disappear into thin air of what they have, despite a thousand promises, made. Hunting needs people who are willing to discuss and reason. He already has too many ideologically blind enemies among animal rights activists, which are quite another thing. And unfortunately a little also among hunters. Or rather, among those who believe they are.
(February 10, 2015)
Press Office of the Italian Hunting Federation