A new government on the horizon
The new government. As a hunting world we are interested in understanding who will be the competent ministers, that is the Ministry of the Environment, on which Ispra depends and the Ministry of Agriculture which is in charge of the delegation, skimpy in the ministerial staff, of hunting. It is obvious that we expect changes, in the wake of a policy free from any ideology and instead marked by scientificity and respect for the national law 157/92. Our world has already acquired a positive result in these elections: the Manifesto in defense of hunting and rural culture drawn up by the recognized Hunting Associations and by the CNCN, gathered in the hunting control room, was signed by 89 candidates, of which elected results 46.
Hunting problems
In our province the document was signed by Senator Adriano Paroli of Forza Italia, the honorable Gian Antonio Girelli and Alfredo Bazoli of the PD and Giangiacomo Calovini of Fratelli d'Italia. Among those elected throughout Italy we find in Parliament a friend of the hunting world, Senator Bruzzone of the League with his party colleague Dreosto as well as the Honorable Flavio Tosi for Forza Italia, former Veneto regional president of Federcaccia. Finally, always in Veneto, Maria Cristina Caretta of Fratelli d'Italia from a life engaged in hunting politics and re-elected in Parliament. This is certainly an important datum, given the smaller numerical composition of the new Parliament, furthermore, since some of the elected members are already aware of the hunting problems it is desirable that some more results can be achieved. But what are we asking of these parliamentarians and above all of the ministers who will soon fill the posts mentioned above. In reality, a simple and banal thing: we want to be treated as normal citizens, exercising an activity foreseen and regulated by the law and not to be subjected, every single day, to ideological violence by sectarian and dishonest officials intellectually and professionally.
Clear and precise rules
The officials of ISPRA and the various regional departments are not paid to make life difficult for hunters, to find expedients that limit or even prevent hunting. These public employees, also paid with our money, must do science, not disinformation. They have to do management and not sabotage for hunting. Above all, they must make clear, timely, enforceable and honest rules. Clear rules because certain regulations, resolutions, management plans can no longer be seen, they are incomprehensible, abstruse, Byzantine, obscure. Timely rules because we can no longer stand to see the times expand indefinitely by discussing the sex of the angels without ever arriving at a decision. The unit of measure for the work of these gentlemen is the day not the week or worse! Applicable rules because what today is written in an incomprehensible way is equally inapplicable; not to mention the rules that must be interpreted and evaluated! We want clear and applicable rules with no interpretation whatsoever. Finally, honest rules, in the sense of impartial, not vitiated by anti-hunt ideology. This ideology has lost the elections, is this concept clear or not ?!
Anti-hunting obsessions
Our world is finding important shores in important people who represent political forces of the first magnitude. Officials have to adapt, they have to do their job otherwise they have to be removed and moved to other offices more suited to their anti-hunting obsessions. We are not interested in deregulation, elimination of all forms of management, the elimination of surveillance, all this does not interest us. However, we want to understand once and for all the importance of the role of the hunter for maintaining certain balances for biodiversity, the enormous contribution to the knowledge of the Italian fauna heritage through the practice of censuses, the essential presence on the territory in a manner constant with the multiple consequences in terms of knowledge and surveillance also in the health field. We know, for example, that the Soarda sweeps have begun again in the province of Brescia, especially in the fixed huts. For example, in this case we ask for professionalism and impartiality: whoever makes a mistake pays whoever is in place continues to hunt, beyond the personal ideas of the controllers. They seem to us simple and acceptable requests that we will try to conquer in this new term of the Italian Parliament.