Hunting: Abruzzo, Febbo and Federcaccia opposed to the contents of the new 2014-2015 Hunting Calendar decide to appeal before the TAR; "Nasty choices, absolute inadequacy of the commissioner Pepe".
“The tragic certainties that we had expressed during a press conference a few days ago materialized into a very bitter reality”. This is what the president of the Supervisory Commission of the Regional Council Mauro Febbo declares, stigmatizing "the last act of the Regional Council with which, for the fourth time, the Hunting Calendar is changed".
“This - remarks Febbo - confirms the absolute inadequacy of the commissioner Pepe, in coordinating the human resources and means of his department aimed at managing the most important planning act in the Region in terms of hunting. For the center-left council, it was not even enough to copy and paste the unassailable calendar of the center-right of last hunting season, since it has undertaken to destroy the good things we had built in previous years. The councilorship made wicked choices when it decided not to have the structure coordinated by qualified personnel, with the consequent complete absence of technical reports in support of collection dates, right from the point of view of sustainable collection and in line with the expectations of the hunting world ".
"Even more serious - continues Febbo - the legal invention of an act of the council, hierarchically lower, which claims to cancel, for some provinces, the adoption of the regulation of the wild boar, the latter instrument fundamental for the management of the species, the reduction of damage to agricultural crops through the five-year selection and control plans, but above all 'vital' for species of community interest such as the bear, in the so-called 'Patom' protection areas and in the faunal corridors where the bears move to feed and reproduce also in the Sic areas (community sites) dedicated to it ".
“For us - adds the regional councilor of Forza Italia - it is a very serious disavowal of the commitments made at the institutional level not only by the Abruzzo Region on the Patom ministerial table but also by the hunting associations, also signatories of a special protocol. The attack on the bear is added to the attack on the hunting world, depleted of entire hunting periods for woodcock and hare, as well as pests and opportunistic jays and hooded crow, compared to what was planned by the Giunta Chiodi. Furthermore, the escape from the dictates of Ispra on Thrush, Colombaccio and Fagiano, without the necessary justifications supported by reports resulting from the re-processing of the culling data, complete the 'disastrous calendar of the Giunta D'Alfonso' ”.
“At this point - concludes Febbo - we are obliged to appeal to the TAR which, as announced, will also be made by the regional Federcaccia. Finally, we await the appeal of the WWF and the Onlus Animalist Association, the only ones who until now have remained silent and who risk, abandoning the defense of the Marsican Bear and leaving the center-right opposition alone, to brand themselves for life as 'not credible' ".
(September 24, 2014)
Source: PrimaDaNoi