The president of Federcaccia Benevento, Antonio Ricciardi, disputes the decision of the Province to entrust the management of the “Pantano” Oasis to LIPU and attacks the councilor Aceto.
With a note of his own, the provincial president of Federcaccia, Antonio Ricciardi, disputes the decision by the Province of Benevento to entrust the management of the “Pantano” oasis to the environmental association Lipu. Ricciardi also argues with the provincial councilor Aceto, for having done nothing for the restructuring program of hunting management. Riccardi's press release reads: "We read with interest the press release of the Province with which it informs that it has entrusted the management of the Protection Oasis called" Pantano "to the Environmentalist Association Lipu, and with equal interest the press release of the Councilor Gianluca Aceto that the Province has ordered the use of 95 thousand euros for the repopulation of fauna in the Restocking and Capture Areas of the Province of Benevento.
In remembering, however, that in one or the other case money is spent coming from the taxes paid by Citizen Hunters and not from public funding, - Ricciardi emphasizes - we cannot fail to remind the Councilor that Regarding the hunting management restructuring program, despite the continuous interventions and solicitations of all the Hunting Associations, and of Federcaccia in particular, in a four-year period of councilorship he did literally nothing, both in terms of planning and management".
Continuing Ricciardi presses, "Never an initiative aimed at improving the pastoral agro-forestry territory: never an official confrontation with the Hunting Associations to address the problems of the sector especially related to relations with the Region; never a participation in a meeting with our Associations who had also asked for his involvement by sending invitations and solicitations regarding the management of the Restocking and Capture Areas, because the approximately 6.000 hectares of land intended for this purpose were left to be fed to predators and to poachers ".
"The only political signal - he adds - he tried to give it in the management of the Territorial Hunting Area, but even here, he first asked for a meeting to illustrate his programmatic proposals, but then had presented himself with an agreement already written for the assignment of the service to an alleged Technical Scientific Committee of wildlife-hunting planning and management for the four-year period 2012/2016. He also spoke of a financial availability of the Department of 350.000,00 euros for hunting management, but even this turned out to be a fantasy ”.
Finally Ricciardi concludes, "It is useless, then, for the Councilor to try to place responsibilities and failures on others which, on the other hand, are to be found exclusively in their apathy towards a category of honest citizens who also have the passion of being Hunters., for which we hope, precisely because of the political role that it plays, that instead of using the money for conventions, it will allocate the sums involved in the purchase of game for restocking to be placed in the territory of the entire Province ".
16 February 2013
Hunting Federation