Today at Roma and in the main Italian cities tens of thousands of farmers, herders, shepherds and citizens will give life to a protest that Coldiretti defines "the largest ever built" to denounce "a national emergency that is causing the abandonment of internal areas, social, economic and environmental problems". These are the same problems that Federcaccia and the hunting world have been denouncing for years, receiving in exchange only indifference or worse being accused of "interest" and wanting to hunt "without rules". Just those rules all the time questioned by the appeals to the TAR and the campaigns promoted by the protectionist and anti-hunt groups, of which we are the first to ask for a complete application.
"We hope that the just protest of the agricultural world, today interpreted by Coldiretti, where our solidarity goes, is heard by politics and the institutions - declares the national president of Federcaccia Massimo Buconi - the same 'guilty' of not having wanted, except in rare cases, to take a position on a problem that has been present for some time and that has assumed emergency dimensions for the agricultural sector, but also for the safety and health of citizens ”. “We expressed our appreciation - continues Buconi - for the approval a few days ago in the Agriculture Commission of the Senate of a resolution that commits the Government to take precise measures in the face of the spread of this phenomenon. We now hope, thanks also to the Coldiretti demonstration, a concrete and rapid intervention, which follows up that act". Federcaccia strongly asks that an organic and shared path of real management of all wildlife, especially problematic animals, be finally undertaken, applied throughout the territory, whatever its classification is.
Follow a correct management approach not conditioned by ideological preconceptions that focuses on the safeguarding the work of farmers, without creating social tensions that the country does not need, but that leads to a definitive solution to which the agricultural world and society have a right and to which the hunting world has already proved to be a fundamental and essential element. In 2019 it is estimated from the data in our possession between 250 and 300 thousand wild boars were killed. Last year, with COVID and the consequent limitations for hunting and the implementation of the control and sampling plans, there was a decrease of 40% compared to those numbers. Of these, over 85% were hunted. Who thinks of closing the hunt or limiting its action, what solution can they propose to achieve results even only comparable to these?
We are aware of don't be the only solution to the problem and we are willing, if allowed, to do more. But the contribution of the hunting world to the control of invasive species remains the most significant today. Without forgetting the important economic contribution in the field of compensation for damages always paid by hunters. "We are ready as always to do our part, continuing to field experience, organization, knowledge and preparation that no other category can boast, as we have done until now - concluded the national president Federcaccia - And we will be alongside farmers for the protection and enhancement of the rural environment in the interest of society.
We expect the consideration that hunters get across Europe for their role as wildlife managers, only in Italy continually challenged by sterile and inconclusive ideological arguments without technical scientific foundations, which not only attack hunting and its practitioners, but bring enormous damage to the entire country "(Press Office of the Italian Hunting Federation).