A message to the new government
“I express in my name and in the name of the whole Federation that I sincerely wish the new Prime Minister, Hon. Giorgia Meloni, to all the new ministers, to the government team and to Parliament, in the interest of the country and, I say without pretense, of hunting ”is the comment of the national president of Federcaccia Massimo Buconi on the occasion of the inauguration of the new executive. "In particular - continued the President - I address a special 'Good luck' to the new Ministers of the Environment and Energy Safety Gilberto Pichetto Fratin and of Agriculture and Food Sovereignty Francesco Lollobrigida". "I hope on the part of the new government and in particular of the new ministers not an eye for consideration, but secular and objective positions, far from certain ideological 'guides' that have unfortunately always conditioned the issues of wildlife and environmental management in Italy, for a comparison serious, constructive and useful to society on the issues of our Association and the role of hunting and hunters ".
Beware of hunting
Knowing the ideas and intentions of the new ministers and above all the level of attention they want to devote to hunting will be of vital importance for us. We have no doubts about the objectivity of the new Minister of Agriculture Francesco Lollobrigida being himself a hunter, even if with extreme honesty he admitted that he is more of a license payer than a regular practitioner, but who still comes from a family of hunters. On the other hand, we do not know the ideas of the new Minister of the Environment Gilberto Pichetto Fratin, a Piedmontese in Forza Italia, who, however, in so many years of political militancy has never, as far as we know, opposed our category and hunting activity. However, it is evident that for the hunting world it is not enough to have non-hostile Ministers but precise political guidelines are needed, to be pursued with stubbornness and constantly monitored, to all those officials who work today in Ispra and in the competent ministries, especially in the Environment. , which for years has been transformed into a stronghold of militants from environmental associations. Certainly we will no longer see the president of Lipu as the head of the Cabinet of the Ministry of the Environment, as did the grillino Costa, but at the same time the situation will not improve by disregarding hunting.
European view of sustainability
Our fear is that the officials continue, more or less in the shadows, their tenacious and continuous work of destroying the Italian hunting activity through inapplicable Management Guidelines, restrictive interpretations of Community regulations, publication of data that is openly and arbitrarily manipulated. Hunting needs to be brought into a European perspective of sustainability without continuing to add fuel to the fire and it can be done without economic costs for the community and also gathering political consensus. By now the majority of Italians have understood that some parlor environmental policies are unsuccessful and this is demonstrated by the proliferation of wild species out of control. Wild boars, otters, ibises, wolves and foxes run around without control causing road accidents, alarm among the population, the latest case of wild boars in an asylum in the province of Pescara, damage to agriculture, river banks and irrigation canals, crops agricultural, private property in general.
The opinions of ISPRA
And this is a point. But there is a second equally serious, the ideologically biased action, in defiance of the laws of the Italian Republic, aimed at continually reducing the Italian hunting activity. Just the example of what happened this year in Lombardy would be enough due to an embarrassing Ispra opinion that advised the regions to postpone the start of the thrush hunt until October XNUMXst from a fixed position because the hunter ran the risk of confusing the thrush with other species without indicating which ones and in order not to disturb other species, also in this case without specifying anything and above all without a shred of scientific motivation, all in the presence of a national law that clearly places on the third Sunday of September the opening of the thrush hunt. It is this viscerally anti-hunt attitude that worries us and which should not be curbed but a radical change of course. For our part, we have a lot to offer, as we are already doing: control of invasive species which does not mean extermination but regulation, monitoring and census of the national wildlife heritage, work that others should do instead. Let's not forget the health monitoring, the presence on the territory that often reports problems of all kinds, the wild meat supply chain and more. There is no need to sit at a table and waste time in the usual useless chat but only political will is needed for a decisive change of course (source: FIDC Brescia).