Hunting: Abruzzo, Mauro Febbo and Emilio Iampieri attack the Region on the contents of the new 2015-2016 Hunting Calendar, "D'Alfonso has abdicated the choices to environmentalists and the park, to the detriment of the whole Abruzzo hunting world".
The president of the supervisory commission of the regional council, Mauro Febbo, and the regional councilor of Forza Italia, Emilio Iampieri, intervene on the proposed hunting calendar, also in relation to the development of the regional hunting council chaired, on June 26, by the councilor Dino Pepe. "What is happening in Abruzzo is very serious - say the opposition councilors Mauro Febbo and Emilio Iampieri - due to the need to reconcile the protection needs of the Marsican bear with the requests for usability of the territory and activities, including hunting , the Abruzzo Region in the past years had activated the Patom technical table at the ministry, generating, by reason of what was established by point B1 of the protection protocol, a series of scientific studies that made it possible to limit hunting activities in times and methods , differentiating the area with a stable presence of the plantigrade, the so-called area C1, with the neighboring areas, C2 ”.
"These decisions, much appreciated by the hunting world, were decisive for the protection of the Marsican bear, given that the hunting programmed with the latest hunting calendars did not in the least affect the delicate periods of reproduction and hibernation - they continue - Today, however, the complete absence of initiatives by the department chaired by Pepe and the absence of the Region regarding the initiatives to continue the confrontation established by point B1, they are producing what we averted during the Giunta Chiodi, and which risks compromising the delicate balance established with great effort, with all stakeholders ". "On the merits - continue Febbo and Iampieri - we do not know with what scientific criteria, the enlargement of the limitations foreseen for the C1 area in the whole C2 area is being made official, but, what is even more penalizing for hunters, in all Municipalities bordering the Park in the area of the Sagittario valley and in the areas between the Abruzzo Park and the Maiella Park ".
According to the two forces, "this decision, the hunters must know, was formalized on the occasion of the last Regional Hunting Consultation by representatives of Patom, with, this is the serious thing, the complete indifference of the Region and even of the representatives of the hunters , of which in particular one belonging to the Sulmona area, as reported by the witnesses and as will be confirmed by the minutes. We want to immediately denounce to public opinion that comparisons have not been made at the institutional level - they accuse - and those who would like to discharge the responsibilities on the environmental impact assessment committee in the near future, as the Way has been brilliantly overcome by the calendar of two years ago, when the Region participated in the technical table ”.
(June 30, 2015)
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