Hunting and Fauna: Belluno, the mayors of the Cansiglio plateau write a letter to the governor Zaia to resolve the issue of the surplus of deer "undermining the forest".
“There are so many deer in the Cansiglio that pushing out of the forest they devoured the wood I had just planted, with 300 small trees”, protests Floriano De Pra, Mayor of Farra d'Alpago. "In the next 20 or 30 years we will no longer have the renewal of the forest so there is no alternative to cutting down at least the quotas indicated by scholars," he insists. Letter-appeal from the public administrators of the Cansiglio plateau to the president of the Veneto Region, Luca Zaia: it was drafted by Oscar Facchin di Tambre, De Pra di Farra d'Alpago and Giacomo De Luca who met at the Festa dei Cimbri on Saturday evening , in Pian Osteria, and have decided to ask for an urgent meeting with the governor. Possibly already before August, considering that the Venetian president has made it known that he will spend these days at work. The required comparison concerns, once again, the emergency of the red deer, in supernumerary. "President Zaia cannot only listen to animal rights activists, who among other things do not live in Cansiglio", De Luca raised his voice, during the Cimbri assembly held yesterday at the museum of man and wood, "he must listen even we mayors, who again in June 2012 asked him for a personal meeting and has yet to grant it ”.
According to De Luca, the stop given by Zaia to the deer selection hunt, when the measure was already decided by both the competent bodies of the Region and by the experts of the Ispra institute, "in fact it is an affront, a pissing off of the mayors themselves, who had been assured the exact opposite, just a month ago ”. The mayor of Farra d'Alpago tries to throw water on the fire. “We don't want to contradict Zaia, we know the danger of certain messages that can reach every corner of the world. We too want to avoid any accusations against our region of massacres or slaughter of bambi; for tourism it would be a disaster ”. But, De Pra insists, “even the disaster that already exists in Cansiglio is not acceptable”.
Hence the invitation to Zaia to come and find the damage to the forest. An invitation that will be extended by the mayors also to environmentalists and animal rights activists. “We are willing to accompany them to the places of the torture of the woods”, anticipates De Pra. "President Zaia - concludes De Luca - know that we are not mayors hunters and personally I am against any form of hunting, but in one way or another we must absolutely stop this process of destruction of our forest".
August 7th, 2013
Source: Corriere delle Alpi