For the second consecutive year the Tar Sardinia, accepting the appeal of environmental associations, has in fact rejected the hare and partridge hunting, underlining the absence of data on these species and their actual population. Thus the Region asked, following the pronouncement of the Tar, to all self-managed on the island to carry out the faunal censuses of the two species and to transmit by March 2019, to the Provinces or Metropolitan Cities competent for the territory, the statistics of all the culls made and the results of the spring censuses of the Sardinian partridge and Sardinian hare species.
A requirement that the self-managed hunting parties belonging to the Sardinian Hunters gathered (Acsr) consider an additional burden that is added to the normal activities of this type that the reserves already carry out. The Autogestite respond to the Region by underlining the responsibilities of the administration: "No legislative provision of the Regional Council imposes the prescriptions communicated by the department", write the presidents of the self-managed in a document. The hunters attribute to the Region "the responsibility for not having activated the necessary surveys to ascertain the faunal consistency of the hare and partridge, in particular in the free territory, exposing the world of hunting to having to give up also for the next hunting season to the exercise of hunting for the two species as has been the case for two seasons now ".
In fact, the self-managed companies already carry out the censuses in their own territory, but for the free territory (about 90 percent of the whole island) it is not clear who is responsible for it. "The associations believe it is urgent to set up a meeting with the newly elected regional councilors, in particular those of Sulcis, to illustrate the issue and urgently urge the Region to increase economic resources in favor of censuses throughout the Sardinian territory, in order to be able to verify in the most appropriate ways the fauna consistency with particular regard to hare and partridge ”, is read in the note. The president and the partners also launch an appeal to all self-managed companies in Sardinia - in total 202 for an area that covers 11 percent of the regional territory - and to all hunters of the free territory to take joint initiatives.