Federcaccia, at the Municipality of Martina Franca, in the province of Taranto, a conference was held to talk about hunting in southern Italy.
In the Council Chamber of the municipality of Martina Franca (TA), crowded with hunters from Puglia and neighboring regions, a conference was held on problems related to hunting in southern Italy. The provincial president of the Fidc of Taranto, Cosimo Colucci, and the regional vice president of Puglia, Giovanni Ciccarese, who brought greetings from the president Saverio Pace, absent for health reasons, did the honors.
Both, in thanking the Mayor Franco Ancona and the administration for the availability and sensitivity shown, underlined the state of confusion and precariousness that the hunting world experiences both for the pronouncements of the Tar on the calendars, and for the territorial limitations, which they are subtracting the most suitable areas from hunting planning, even beyond the limits set by the regulations. The national vice president Antonio D'Angelo in his speech highlighted how the activities of the Migratory Birdlife Office can offer a valid contribution to the Regions in the drafting of hunting calendars, because it is up to them to adequately motivate their decisions whenever they are deviate from the Ispra opinion.
Subsequent interventions were all aimed at presenting their own studies and research on some species of migratory birds of hunting interest. Michele Sorrenti, scientific director of the migratory avifauna office, recalled how the guide for the drafting of calendars sent by Ispra to the Regions provides for severe limitations on the periods and the sampling of individual species, especially for the song thrush and woodcock.
No changes should be made, he stressed, that is not in line with the provisions of the Key Concepts, which set the decade of the beginning of the pre-nuptial migration of each individual species, since the Regions in setting the sampling periods have the right to make use of the overlap. of a decade provided for by the Interpretative Guide of Directive 79/409 and of the “Ornis” document.
For the bottaccio in particular, the studies carried out on the territory in the ringing stations in Puglia, Calabria, Umbria and the province of Salerno, continued Sorrenti, show that the onset of the pre-nuptial migration takes place well beyond the 1st decade of February, the which legitimately allows its withdrawal until January 31st, together with the sassello.
Sergio Scebba, ornithologist, in his speech highlighted how from the researches deriving from the ringing and monitoring of larks in the province of Caserta and turdids in the province of Latina and Lecce, the data indicate that the migration flows for the former in the areas of the belt are constant. Tirrenica monitored, while for turdids the migration peak is found starting from the 2nd decade of February.
Alessandro Tedeschi finally presented the research on woodcock promoted by the Avifauna Office: from the "Scolopax Overland" project which uses the satellite radio tracking system, to "royal wings", to the "Tempo Reale" project and to the "fight against infamous mail" . Studies and initiatives to defend and learn more about the woodcock species, the phenomenology of migrations, wintering habitats, habits.
The final, but not less important, attention was paid to the problems of the territories that are systematically and increasingly massively subtracted from hunting, also understood as management, to the "parcomania", which especially in the South is presented as a panacea for all environmental evils; to the lack of certainty, to the continuous restriction of spaces and territories which, as underlined by vice president D'Angelo, are suffocating our passion.
Hence the common commitment, the effort towards the unification of hunting associations, to open together a confrontation with the institutions. “The only way - concluded D'Angelo - to save hunting and all that it represents in terms of emotions, passion, tradition, culture, economy”.
11 March 2013
Hunting Federation