Hunting: Abruzzo, Febbo and Sospiri on the 2014-15 Hunting Calendar, “The Region does not protect the bear, Pepe resigns. Animal welfare associations which are false bear protectors. "
“What we had long denounced has materialized today. The WWF has announced not to challenge the hunting calendar and at the same time trust is given to the regional councilor Hunting Pepper. By now the animal welfare associations have come out into the open, showing their true face as false bear protectors and politicians ”. Thus the President of the Regional Supervisory Commission, Mauro Febbo and the Forza Italia Group Leader in the Sospiri Regional Council, who add: "The Giunta D'Alfonso has done nothing but copy the 2013 calendar with variations on hare, rock partridge, woodcock who slaughtered the hunters.
The only thing of real interest for the WWF and for the community on which the calendar should be rejected, is precisely the invention of giving the Provinces the possibility of derogating from the Regulation on wild boar, an act considered by Ispra and by all scientists, fundamental programming tool not only for the management of the species and the reduction of damage to agriculture, but vital for the bear. Faced with this inexplicable decision - Febbo and Sospiri underline - we would have expected a strong stance on the part of the WWF; instead the environmental association, which in recent years had never lost an opportunity to declare its integrity, even holding two press conferences to stop our complaint and threaten the Region, demonstrates what we had declared two months ago: that it is not credible but, at the on the contrary, it is devious and dangerous.
Why does Pepe cancel the bear protection with a WWF endorsement? The latter evokes in his note the agreement signed at national level on the protection table of the bear (Patom). But what does the national agreement say? Progressive elimination of the hunt also in the areas of occasional presence in defense of the faunal corridors in which the bear is interested in order to move, eat and reproduce. It could be said that it was all premeditated. The regional council, before the WWF declared it was not contesting the calendar, appointed an institutional representative of the WWF, Massimo Pellegrini, to preside over the Patom table as early as 18 September. The latter, already in the first meeting, urged the updating of the maps on the no hunting areas and the establishment of the contiguous areas that would exclude all the hunters of Pescara, Teramo and Chieti from the internal areas: it is the end of the hunt.
The WWF triggers controversy with the press conferences and the Region entrusts it with the hunt? The Regional Council, absolutely unprepared, postpones the Regulations but practically lets itself be bewitched by the WWF, interrupting all the programming actions put in place by the previous Executive, not overseeing the problems connected to the study of data on the bear, effectively decreeing the death of the hunting activity in Abruzzo. We will not allow what has been done by the Giunta Chiodi be nullified - conclude Febbo and Sospiri - and we will not allow certain representatives of the environmentalist world to influence the choices of this regional government which continues to operate in complete unawareness. Pepe resigns ".
19 October 2014
Source: TerreMarsicane