Hunters engaged in voluntary initiatives to protect the environment, whether it be wild boar or parasitic butterflies, provoke the irritation of environmentalists.
Whether it is a parasite invasion (lymantria dispar) or ungulates free in the city (it happened in florence) the intervention and professionalism of hunting volunteers help the management. The irritation of the environmentalist world is unmotivated.
Two cases among the many that the press offers daily: in plummet 1300 hectares of holm oak and Mediterranean scrub are at risk: decisive interventions are needed to fight a caterpillar that creates damage to this magnificent habitat that extends on the promontory and the hunters of the various acronyms, Federcaccia in the head, they give their availability.
The regional councilor salvadori, the provincial pacini and gloria montanini of the civil protection of the municipality of piombino are convinced that the intervention is necessary. The local president of legambiente has doubts but, above all, appears irritated by the presence of hunters, a definite participation and involvement in the press “.. a strange thing”.
Yet the hunters care for the environment and have always known that well-kept and well-managed habitats are decisive for the stop and reproduction of fauna; a "profession", that of the relationship with fauna and territory which, here is the second case, sees them as protagonists even by chance, if we can say so.
In recent days, this is the fact, at dawn, in one of the busiest access arteries to Florence, in Viale Giannotti, two large female boar strolls in front of the Marconi cinema. The report quickly arrived at the police station and the municipal police and two cars arrived on the spot.
All eyes wide open in front of the unusual event, except for a deputy inspector of the brigade, who the press defines as an expert hunter: it is he who gets out and starts making noise to direct the wild boars, this time not to the post office but towards the countryside. In half an hour, with the help of machines and sirens, the two ungulates are brought 'home'.
Two examples, two of the many that can be done and that tell better than the words of the availability and professionalism of hunters.
Federcaccia Tuscany