Hunting and Fauna: Benevento, EPS Sannio expresses its opinions on “ready-made” game feeds hunting"And hunting management.
“The ATC of Benevento resolves not to follow up on the entries of pheasants "Ready hunting" close to the opening of the hunting season, or, given the times, in the period from 16 to 31 August 2015. Taken with "pain" that this is still wildlife management for some, we believe that the ready hunting belongs to the “concept” that the cassettes for every hunting federtesserino are better than hunting management ”, thus begins a note from the EPS Sannio secretariat. “We hope - continues the note - for the time of wildlife management in the repopulation and capture areas of pheasants and hares born in the area. We do not want to go back to the subject and the causes that have produced the delay in the introduction of pheasants for this year within the period of February-March, but a note must be paid on the subject. The practice of the so-called "ready hunting", - explains EPS - which consists in releasing game for the sole purpose of exercising its hunting during the current hunting season, is to be considered extraneous to the purposes of the PFV and of the regional and provincial hunting planning, and it is practicable only in the context of Agri-Tourist-Hunting Companies, and not in the territories with planned hunting, that is to say those managed by the Territorial Hunting Areas.
On the subject of "ready hunting" the regional guidelines issued, - reads the note - are inspired by general principles of protection and conservation of wildlife and its sustainable use, considering that the introduction of "prompt hunting" is not practicable. The “ready-to-hunt” hunting collection, intended as a practice aimed at a hunting fruition detached from the real productivity of wild populations, can negatively influence the development and consistency of these populations. Therefore, outside the institutes destined to host this type of activity, it is necessary to improve the balance between natural productivity and hunting withdrawal, through a rational planning of restocking and a containment of inputs in the hunting season.
On these principles of sustainable management of wildlife resources of which both the politics and the hunters themselves, - concludes the EPS note - often fill one's mouth so much, at times, it is necessary to make common sense choices. Sustainable or unsustainable, this is not wildlife management: this is just a game, all the more unacceptable because it is perpetrated against a collective heritage such as wildlife and to the detriment of those many passionate hunters, who have been supporting the principle for years: "Better few and good ... ... .. but freed in the right period".
(22 July 2015)
Game Producers Authority