A not encouraging sign
The Council of State has rejected the request for a stay on the resolution concerning mountain passes in Lombardia, presented by the Region and some hunting associations. The situation for hunters therefore remains unchanged, with the 475 mountain passes still closed to hunting activity. The final hearing has been set for October 9, 2025. Regarding this decision, the regional president of Federcaccia, Marco Bruni, expressed strong concern. "It is clear that this is certainly not an encouraging sign, because it was not considered that there were any dangers to suspend the resolution", Bruni said, underlining how the motivation even highlighted "the lack of evidence regarding the fact that the wild boar populations that reside in the mountain passes are carriers of swine fever, because it is well known that wild boars on the mountain passes are vaccinated".
Mountain Hunters
Bruni then broadened the scope of the debate, going beyond the health and wildlife issue: "But beyond this, it is not just a matter of containing wild boar for swine fever or ungulates for damage to agriculture, which are a topic of fundamental importance. I would not want us to forget what is the cultural heritage, the heritage of traditions, but also a heritage of rights that mountain hunters have to be able to continue to carry out their activity that is recognized by a law of the Italian State in the mountains of Lombardy". Faced with this situation, the request to the Government is clear: "So it is clear that we ask the Government to take action quickly, promptly." Bruni highlighted the commitment of Councilor Beduschi in Rome: “Councilor Beduschi is hammering in Rome the Undersecretary La Pietra, the Minister Lollobrigida, the Minister Pichetto Frattin to find a solution, and it must be found within a relative time, because the huts must be restored, cleaned, the plants pruned. It is not something that can be said 10 days before the start of hunting activity. It also requires a little respect towards people.”
Stop position
Concluding his speech, Bruni reiterated the association's firm position: "Therefore, I repeat, we ask for timely political intervention to remedy what is clearly and blatantly an attack on hunting activity, because it is evident to everyone that this is a dirty trick that has been done to the detriment of the hunting world, by the usual ISPRA, by the usual people who should be technical-scientific consultants and identify 475 passes in Lombardy. So we find what the true spirit of 157 is and it must be found by politics in the Government, because evidently the ISPRA technicians are animated by completely different intentions." (source: FIDC).
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