Hunting: Sassari, the hunters of the province of Sassari ask to suspend the Provincial Wildlife Hunting Plan in order to make improvements.
The Hunting Associations, the Logudoro hunters and the Municipal Administration of Ozieri during a meeting held in recent days on the sidelines of the publication of the bill to modify the Regional Plan asked to suspend the Wildlife Hunting Plan of the province of Sassari to have the possibility to review and improve it. For Logudoro hunters there is a need to have a provincial Hunting Wildlife Plan containing widely shared novelties, considering that the same innovations will flow into the Regional Plan; the request takes into account in fact that the Provincial Plan published last March XNUMXst, after a long phase of consultation which lasted about two years, contains several critical points.
The main changes introduced include the establishment of the ATC, Territorial Hunting Areas, aimed at linking the hunter to the territory, and a massive expansion in the extension of the area closed to hunting, from 6 to 25 percent of the territory of the agro-forestry-pastoral area. On the issue, the Councilor for the Environment of the Municipality of Ozieri, Carmelo Lostia, explained “Although with the delays linked to institutional events, the Councilorship has promoted a series of meetings / comparisons between representatives of the hunting associations of the territory and competent institutions. From a first meeting, held on 29 March last, in the presence of Arci Caccia, Federcaccia, Ucs and Cpa, various critical issues emerged which we will discuss in depth in a second meeting scheduled for Wednesday 17 April in the presence of the provincial councilor Paolo Denegri ".
Among the critical issues highlighted during the meeting is the question of the Oases, established twenty-five years ago but not yet open; during the meeting it was stated, "Good practice would be to think about their opening, to avoid the problems related to the prolonged absence of hunting in a given territory (excessive presence of dominant species to the detriment of biodiversity, consanguinity, epidemics and much more ) ".
Furthermore, the areas on which the Oases insist, defined by the plan as “not particularly suited” for the species most in difficulty, such as the noble sedentary, and for the most part absolutely not suited for the protection of the Little Bustard. According to the Hunting Associations then the Plan does not provide for Temporary Restocking and Capture Zones (Ztrc) which could be identified in designated areas in order to favor the improvement of the conditions of those species most in difficulty.
During the meeting in Ozieri, therefore, one of the proposals that emerged concerns the revocation of the decrees establishing the Permanent Protection Oases (San Giovanni and Sa Costa) by identifying new areas; it was also proposed to resize the extension of the Oases provided for by the Plan also taking into account the presence, in the municipal area, of a SPA, a Special Protection Area, a SIC, a Site of Community Interest Sic. The establishment of a Ztrc is also proposed and finally the start-up of training courses for assistants and select-controllers authorized to intervene for those containment operations that may be necessary within the Protection Institutes.
13 April 2013