Hunters and Hunters: Minister Galletti in the course of an initiative of ANUU Migrators "new environmental natives are needed", young people with great familiarity in environmental matters.
The presentation of the initiative called "Environment, Legality, Work: projects for a new quality of life" promoted by ANUUMigratoristi, Arci Caccia, CNCN, Federparchi, University of Milan - Department of Veterinary Sciences and Public Health, University of Naples Federico II - Department of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Production, University of Gastronomic Sciences of Pollenzo, University of Urbino "Carlo BO", Observatory on Agri-food Crime and on the Agri-food System and the Italian Society of Preventive Veterinary Medicine.
The initiative was also attended by the Minister of the Environment Galletti, in the aftermath of theabsurd and illegitimate decision which took up, in the Council of Ministers, on the issue of hunting calendars by requiring the Regions to close early on January 20 for the hunting to Cesena species, Song Thrush and Woodcock. As if nothing had happened, the Minister declared great esteem and appreciation for the role of hunters and hunting associations in the management and protection of the environment and biodiversity and then invoked the need to encourage the formation and dissemination of a wider environmental culture in the country also through the birth of a new "generation of environmental natives", that is, as the Minister himself later specified, of young citizens who have the same familiarity in environmental matters as that demonstrated by today's children with mobile phones and computer.
Two flash considerations on the statements of Minister Galletti.
First: the Minister preaches well but scratches badly, since it is not possible to declare esteem and appreciation for the role of hunters and at the same time repay them with illegitimate decrees aimed at anticipating the closure of hunting for some species, while the real problems are quite other environmental aspects of our poor country.
Second: the Minister evidently does not see, or does not want to see, that the country already has "ENVIRONMENTAL NATIVES", that is, people who, beyond the generation to which they belong, are jealous custodians and diffusers of an authentic, real and concrete environmental culture, based not only on studies and insights but also, and above all, on a lot, a lot of practical experience and knowledge of animal and vegetable biodiversity and of the real "laws" that have always governed it: hunters.
Thus, while hunters must defend themselves from unjustified attacks and do not see the social, economic and environmental importance of their role truly recognized, animal-environmentalist ignorance is gaining ground, especially in urban and metropolitan areas, where some pose as guardians. of nature, to great experts in the environment and fauna, declare themselves opposed to hunting and then, as we have seen, they cannot find an answer to an incredibly complex dilemma: "but how will the rooster fertilize the egg of the hen that has the shell "?
(January 22, 2015)
ANUU Migrators