Umbrian hunting federation it cannot remain helpless in the face of the incomprehensible, penalizing restrictions included in the hunting calendar 2019/2020, following the ISPRA opinion, which is not binding, on the calendar proposal sent by Umbria Region, without taking into account what was agreed upon by the Regional Wildlife-Hunting Council. If for the Pochard we could, in fact, have tolerated a limitation of the game bag in the order of 5 heads per day e 25 seasonal garments, due to the vulnerability status of the species which requires, in any case, adequate management measures and careful monitoring of the samples, it is inconceivable to say the least what is set forth by the Umbria Region in the current calendar, which allows a poor game bag of 2 daily items and 10 seasonal items.
Furthermore, we do not understand the useless and further limitations to the Tortora game bag, especially for which no pre-opening was planned this year, as well as to the Quail game bag, in fact halved in the face of an already contingent seasonal game bag. (25 heads) and the new ones, unjustified penalties on Lapwing and Codon, species for which a daily and seasonal game bag of 5 and 25 head has been added respectively. To this must be added the failure to adjust the daily and seasonal bag of the Lark, respectively to 20 and 100 head for hunters possessing live decoys, as provided for in the National Management Plan prepared by the ISPR itselfA but not implemented by the Umbria Region, which left the limits to 10 and 50 for all hunters, without taking into account the specialists.
Federcaccia Umbra is not there, hopes for the involvement of all stakeholders and strongly asks a political response, which gives dignity and does not further penalize migratory hunters, who dedicate themselves with passion and dedication to these forms of hunting even in the face of considerable economic investments in habitat maintenance congenial to them, and that play a fundamental role in the collection of information suitable for guaranteeing the sustainability of the collection of these species, much desired by ISPRA. The only positive note is the maintenance of the Red Partridge among the species that can be hunted in the region. For this species, characterized by an important south-eastward expansion of the Tuscan populations, Federcaccia Umbra finally hopes for an active management (conservative withdrawal plans) that takes into account the peculiarities of the same without losing sight of the actions in favor of the Apennine rock partridge, a protected species in Umbria since 1988 but never really managed by the appropriate institutions.