Federcaccia Venice, the "cicadas" of the park of the Lagoon of Caorle, Bibione, Concordia have reappeared.
25 years have passed since the first proposal. According to the same promoters, the future of coastal tourism would have developed only if the park had been built, prohibiting the hunting, fishing, introducing hundreds and thousands of tourists to the lagoon. They add: the park is needed to counter the construction of a mega village in Valle Vecchia. In these 25 years the hunters have not chatted, they have kept the lagoon clean, they have got their hands dirty with targeted interventions to bring back wildlife, which not surprisingly has increased in the last twenty years from 20.000 to 40.000 water birds. The traditions, the sites, the water meadows, the internal ponds have been respected, the expansion of the reed was reduced. ZPS and SIC respected and control also by voluntary hunting surveillance, all at no cost to the community. Speaking of collection and waste, we remind the "cicadas": how many have they collected?
We have been cleaning those areas for 17 years as well as throughout the province by providing 450 volunteers, sometimes in collaboration with Legambiente, every year with boats, pick ups, tractors, and the participation of local administrators, collecting tons of waste disposed of by ASVO, all for free. Since it has existed, the VE1 hunting area of Portogruaro has invested at least 10 thousand euros per year for its members to cut the grass on the meadows, limit the reed, and another 10 for environmental restoration.
If the valley lagoon area is well maintained (as recognized by all observers) this is also due to the hunters; without a park you live better, you keep politics out of a jewel that everyone envies us, you avoid the temptations of collusion with the underworld, you continue to respect the environment, with its biodiversity; it avoids the introduction of masses of people, in such a fragile environment.
Gentlemen, it is not enough to have some characters on board to advertise your proposal; we have no characters, we are there armed with a lot of work produced in defense of that heritage, we are not willing to leave the institution of the park to the media carousel from the first republic, with public money. Just as said by the Mayor of Venice Brugnaro, on your schooner on Sunday “I didn't see any unemployed”…!
(Luciano Babbo - Provincial President Federcaccia Venice)
(1 July 2015)