Hunting and Fauna. The coordinator of Agrinsieme Antonio Dosi intervenes on the strengthening of the prevention activity by the Emilia Romagna Region who, in acknowledging the economic commitment put in place by the Regional Agriculture Department, highlights some highly critical elements.
“Prevention is good, - says Dosi - but thousands of hectares cannot be fenced off to keep them away ungulates: it is materially impossible, as well as difficult to maintain certain works. Furthermore, farmers would be more involved in protecting the fields, day and night, than in cultivation, with unbearable costs ”.
Agrinsieme also urges the unity of regional and provincial wildlife policy, a fragmented territory in which competences and responsibilities are intertwined between Parks, territorial hunting areas and Provinces.
“It is also necessary to guarantee to the farmers, exhausted after years of raids by ungulates, that the damages are fully compensated because in many mountain and hill areas - and not only - of our region it is becoming impossible to carry out agricultural activity and grazing. For this reason, Agrinsieme Emilia Romagna has elaborated some proposals to modify two regional laws (number 8 of 1994 and number 6 of 2005) which regulate hunting and the management of protected areas in the regional territory ”.
“It should be noted that in the last 10 years the hunters have gone from 56.944 in the 2003-2004 hunting season to 40.762 in 2013-2014 and to 38.785 in 2014-2015. The continuous aging of hunters and their progressive reduction - stresses the Agrinsieme coordinator - can also determine a decrease in the financial resources to be allocated to the prevention and compensation of damages, as well as reduce the availability of the volunteer work necessary to assist farmers in preparing the prevention works and in the implementation of control plans ".
"Basically, it is our opinion that the national legislation is changed, but while we wait we believe it is necessary to intervene on the regional legislation by implementing the possible changes to the two regional laws indicated, in order to fully compensate the damage suffered, make the managers of the protected areas more responsible and give the certainty that the necessary unity of regional and provincial wildlife policy is ensured also in these territories. It is then necessary to give certainty about the timing of implementation of the control plans - adds Dosi - and the legislation must remove any potential constraint ".
Even the bureaucratic aspect is cumbersome, according to Agrinsieme, because the regional regulation in force (DGR 1515 of 28/10/2013) provides, for example, that requests for damages suffered as a result of non-compliance with the preventive action indicated by the Province. "If a farmer has never suffered damage, he does not think about making claims for compensation - concludes the coordinator of Agrinsieme - so the first time he undergoes 'incursions' he risks being excluded from compensation". Finally, the otters: “Now that the species is no longer considered as wildlife by law, who will pay for the damage caused by this species?
(December 15, 2015)
Source: Sassuolo2000
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