Understandable and justified disappointment
We report the press release from the hunting association Libera Caccia regarding the legislative process of the amendments on hunting which is being talked about a lot: “The abrupt and unexpected stop to the conversion into law of the Agriculture Decree, containing the amendments proposed by Senator Bruzzone that all Italian hunters were waiting for, has caused understandable and justified disappointment. Even if the stop concerns various amendments such as the contrast to the PSA, mountain passes, etc., in particular, it was precisely the amendment concerning the hunting calendars that aroused anger and indignation for having withdrawn a provision that we believed and continue to believe was necessary in the our comparisons: the certainty of law which in every democratic nation represents the very foundations of civil coexistence".
Concrete answers
“This time too, in short, it seems (and I underline it seems) that politics, and in particular the current government majority, which also received concrete answers from the hunters during the last electoral consultations, including European ones, has thrown away what seemed now legitimately conquered thanks to a pragmatic approach to the entire environmental and wildlife problem and to the repeated assurances received over the last few months. The hunting world, made up of upright and responsible citizens as well as increasingly technically prepared and specialized, cannot continue to have the sword of Damocles hanging over its head of the countless appeals to the various TARs that anti-hunting activists promote liberally thanks to the generous free provision that is been granted to them."
The solution to be found
“Even if the disappointment was truly great, we cannot allow this to rhyme with desperation, resignation and an absolute and harmful pessimism. This battle has been temporarily lost but the government must and will be able to find other solutions to guarantee non-ideological but technical and scientific management of the enormous economic and health problems that an unsustainable increase in wildlife - often problematic and dangerous for biodiversity itself - is causing to the entire nation. We urge the government as firmly as possible to find a solution in a rigorously short time so as not to disappoint, once again, the legitimate expectations of those who, after having paid in advance, see the cards on the table and the rules of the game changing. Within the unitary organizations we will do everything in our power to prevent the next hunting season from suffering the same traumas and cuts as past ones. As Libera Caccia, however, we intend to draw a great lesson from this affair and to follow the example of our French colleagues who, faced with the refusal to grant exemptions to the traditional hunts practiced for centuries in some areas, responded with great firmness: “No exceptions? No control of ungulates and problematic fauna!” (source: ANLC).
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