The past few days, the presidents of the Marche Hunting Associations Free Hunt e Arch Hunting, Giancarlo Gasparini and Gabriele Sperandio, met the Marche Regional Councilor with responsibility for hunting Moreno Pieroni to take stock of the management situation of the territory also to the hunting purposes with particular regard to the control operations of problematic fauna. The Presidents stressed, for the umpteenth time, the non-implementation of art. 25 of Regional law 7/95 (wildlife control) by the Provincial Police and authorized entities. The Presidents of the two Marche Associations are very worried about the total lack of management of the territory on the subject in question. This deplorable situation led, first to conflicts with the agricultural world, conflicts mainly due to the excessive proliferation of the wild boar species and the consequent damage to agriculture.
The greatest concentrations of this ungulate have occurred, especially in areas closed to hunting such as Protection Oasis and Restocking and Capture Areas. Failure to intervene with control operations, mainly during the spring / summer period, the period in which the most significant impact of this species on agricultural crops is found, has led to an ever greater outlay of money to compensate the damage caused by this ungulate, also reflecting negatively on the management of other species of minor sedentary fauna. The Marche Region has recently tried to remedy this situation by adopting a specific Regulation that governs the management of the suide and provides for the related containment actions. The problem is that this regulation is completely unimplemented. In this context, the aforementioned Regional Presidents represented the Councilor Pieroni with significance the failure by the Region itself to adopt a specific control plan for corvids and foxes, a plan which is expressly provided for by current legislation.
The uncontested proliferation of these opportunistic species (magpies and gray crows above all) jeopardizes any form of management of the territory (especially of the protected one) by the Territorial Areas of Hunting and causes the small sedentary game (hare, pheasant, partridge and partridge red) is disappearing from our Region. If no action is taken immediately, the environmental damage due to the loss of these species will be immense and irreversible. The Provincial Police in fact, following Sentence no. 139/2017 of the Constitutional Court which annulled the Regional Law of Liguria, refuse to apply Article 25 of the aforementioned Law, as they argue, as far as is known, that it is not consistent with the provisions of National framework law 157/92 which regulates the protection of wildlife and, therefore, the hunting and control of surplus species. "Against the Marche regional law" - Gasparini and Sperandio reiterate - "there is no recourse in progress and the same, perfectly in force, must be fully applied, as is done, to cite a few examples, in Emilia Romagna, Tuscany and Abruzzo. "
"This arbitrary position of the Provincial Police" - they continue - "blocks the control of the aforementioned opportunist species (corvids and foxes) and consequently jeopardizes any effective management of gray partridge, pheasant, hare and red partridge." Councilor Pieroni seems to have grasped the problem as well as the imperative urgency of resolving it and has ensured that he will intervene coercively on the Provincial Police to resolve the unpleasant situation that has arisen. "Failure to apply the regional law in force" - conclude the two Regional Presidents of Arci Caccia and Libera Caccia - "configures omission of official documents and if we continued along this line, we would be forced, within a short time, to expose the problem, with a formal document, to the competent judiciary ”.