Punctual as at the other appointment, that of the opening of the hunt, here is that on the last day of the hunting season - even if in some regions it will continue for a few days and a very limited number of species - the press releases of the ANTI arrive. Spurious arguments, numbers from war bulletins, excited tones of apocalypse ... the usual panorama from which the former environmentalism of our country, now largely deployed on the front of animalism, just can't get out.
Federcaccia, as always, was ready to respond - and in some cases anticipate - to make the hunters' bell heard. Below is the note sent yesterday to Ansa national and from this recovery and attached the video comment by the national president Massimo Buconi.
"The WWF and the anti-huntsmen in general, as usual, make the trial of the intentions: unlike what they declare it is not acceptable and not even legitimate to think that since hunting continues in a limited number of regions for a few days the hunting activity of a very small number of species , mostly opportunistic and in supernumerary, there will be episodes of poaching by hunters ”. Thus the national president of the Italian Federation of Hunting Massimo Buconi, comments on what was declared by the WWF on the occasion of the imminent closure of the hunting season and relaunched by ANSA
“Likewise, the combination of hunters and poachers is not acceptable” continues Buconi. "The two figures have nothing in common and the first to suffer damage from those who knowingly break the laws are the very many practicing the hunting activity, conducted in full compliance with legislation and in the name of full sustainability, as it is recognized throughout Europe, which looks to hunters as reliable partners in support of environmental policies, other than 'special observers for hunting policies' as declared by Enpa. And to answer this last one, I remember that hunting not only does not devastate and pollute, but rather it is in the foreground in the defense and protection of the environment. It is often the hunters, thanks to their presence on the territory throughout the year, to control and report situations of environmental illegality, as are the first - the dramatic episode of the aquatic exterminated by the Botox in the Valle della Canna, as well as a protected area , proves it - to intervene with their own means and without any external help ”.
“The dangers in our country are quite different for biodiversity, the territory and the environment”, concludes President Federcaccia. "The 'fashion' of pointing the finger at hunters, who may well be said to be an easy target, is an instrumental and convenient witch hunt, because not even the protectionist associations have the courage to point out and tackle the real problems of the environment if not making proclamations on the occasion of the opening and closing of the hunt to solicit with unjustified alarms and spurious arguments new registrations and always new and useless public funding ".