An important clarification
Following the declarations in the press by the president of the Migliarino, San Rossore, Massaciuccoli regional park Lorenzo Bani, we would like to clarify the fact that within the amendment being approved, the opportunity of possibly including it in the Finance Law can be discussed, it is specified and reiterated that there is no mention of hunting, i.e. of hunting activity, let alone of "wild hunting", but of control and killing outside the hunting exercise and above all certainly not of wolf and other particularly protected species, on which, however, already now the Habitats Directive provides specific derogations to the maximum protection regime. The provision, the result of the unanimous requests of all the agricultural councilors within the State-Regions Conference, has the objective of containing the specimens, especially ungulates, which create objective problems in urban and peri-urban areas in our cities and which they cost the coffers of the State, the Park Authorities and the Regions, millions of euros in compensation also for the compensation for damages caused by road accidents, sometimes fatal, caused by these ungulates.
The Tuscan model
The modification of the law then does nothing but reproduce the Tuscan model at a national level, implemented for years through the application of art. 37 of the Tuscany Regional Law 3/94, which provides for the involvement, in addition to the Voluntary Hunting Security Guards, of hunters, citizens in possession of a regular firearms license, adequately trained and therefore deputies to the public service, as assistants to control and containment operations always and only, it should be reiterated, under the supervision and organization of the local police forces and the Carabinieri Forestali.
Control of redundant species
"Therefore, no free initiative by hunters or hunting deregulation is envisaged, but only surgical operations to control redundant species, even in peri-urban environments, supervised by the judicial police, with the maximum guarantee of safety and transparency of operations for all citizens - he declares the president of Federcaccia Toscana - Union of Tuscan Hunters Marco Salvadori - Enough with this vulgar propaganda which in fact only produces useless and truthless clashes in a society where hunting is criminalized every day in an instrumental way, a highly regulated activity, recognized by bodies international scientific studies, useful for the protection of biodiversity". As for the Park as a "Free Wolf Protection Zone", we invite President Bani to avoid pindaric and imaginative flights, as has already happened for his well-known position on the Giglio moufflons. The Park Authority, like any other State Authority, must comply with the state regulations and the provisions of the law in force, certainly not guaranteeing animal rights extremisms in search of trivial consents (source: FIDC).