The Marsican Bear will not be happy with the recent ordinance of the TAR of Abruzzo which confirms the monochromatic precautionary decree that suspended the hunting of some species of animals throughout the Region, such as Lark, Quail, Tortora, Woodcock, Marzaiola, Snipe, Pochard and Lapwing, as well as hunting tout court in Natura 2000 sites (SIC and ZPS) and in areas where the bear is identified by the PATOM.
We do not enter into the merits of the closure of the aforementioned fauna species, even if it is not clear for what reasons they, hunted throughout Europe, can no longer be hunted in Abruzzo. European schizophrenia, where each nation interprets the Directives in its own way? The hunting organizations will take care of this, if they want (and finally!) By putting their legal offices in place, while we are more interested in the question of the Marsican brown bear to defend which the judge has decided to apply a ban in the SIC. that in the European Directives it is not required, in fact by “legislating” as probably foreseen by the rules on the subject of which we are not aware and for which we also do not enter into the merits.
Absurdly, while to prevent Enduro races and photovoltaic projects it was not decided to appeal to the dictates of the European Directives on SIC and ZPS (and the competence is, and was, indisputable!), This is being done throughout Italy to hunting practice! But so be it. This is the way environmentalism exists in our country, where animalism is now prevailing and the conservation of natural spaces is less and less concerned. An absurd interpretation entirely and exclusively Italian, which seems to want to follow that on the RAMSAR wetlands (in Italy there are the only swamps in the world included in this category of "protected areas" which out of respect for this international convention are closed to hunting ( in Alaska they even hunt in RAMSAR areas of Wildlife Refuges!).
Meanwhile, the fundamental problem remains; that is, to defend the bear, the presence of the wild boar, at least in the area outside the Park, was prevented from being reduced as it deserves (although coordinated interventions should also be carried out inside the National Park, if you really wanted to save the Marsican bear from extinction). We do not really believe that the Bear, if ever he were able to pronounce himself, would declare himself satisfied with this "victory" of the anti-hunt environmentalists!
Of course, this year the bear will therefore not be disturbed by hunters (who, moreover, with their hunts would have pushed him to return to the limits of the Park, from which he is increasingly moving away and certainly not because of the hunters) when he goes. looking for wild apples and other fruit, wild apples and other fruit, beech, acorns, tubers and any food resource that he will no longer find due to the presence of the competitive wild boar (a species which is hybrid and deserving of being completely eradicated) than due to the an excessive number of animals is wiping out all food resources, with the result that even in spring the bear will remain dry-mouthed and precisely in one of the most critical periods of the year for its existence, when natural resources are scarce.
The judge was called into question by the anti-hunting environmentalists who exploited the Marsican bear to defeat the hunters; and he obviously issued his own judgment; a judgment that can only be respected by the authorities, at least until proven otherwise by any appeals and appeals to new judges, hoping that they are those of "Berlin" that the hunters have been waiting for for some time (perhaps in vain, with the air that pulls).
In the meantime, at the conclusion of the facts it remains that no one is interested in the real problems of the Marsican brown bear; no one wondering why these blessed bears are increasingly present in the unprotected areas outside the Park and less and less present in the large protected area of the Park, as in the past. We have already discussed the reasons in other press releases and it is useless to point them out here. One thing is certain: hunting has nothing to do with it.
We were told that about ten puppies were born this year; a good news. The problem now is not so much to prevent what has never happened, namely that they are mistakenly killed during regular and legitimate hunting, as to prepare the environment for those who come to spring to survive. The order of these days of the single judge certainly does not go in this direction.
On the contrary, we fear that the poaching which is occasionally vented and which historically never existed in Abruzzo (otherwise the bears would have become extinct a hundred years ago!), As it happened for the brigandage of the post-unification era, will increase by hunters (but also of farmers, breeders and simple owners of gardens and chicken coops) disappointed and irritated by a provision that in its legitimacy they can only consider punitive and oppressive towards them for a fault that is of others and, in some ways, which now dates back many years and to characters that are almost forgotten today.
At the end of this 2012-13 hunting season, perhaps victory will be sung, arguing that no bears will have been "counted" among those killed; in this case, ignoring that no killings during the period and legitimate hunting activity in the last 70 years have ever been recorded! Again and for the umpteenth time, it is appropriate to say, that God saves the Bear from those who say they love him ...
Italian Wilderness Association
15 October 2012
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