The Piedmont Region currently lacks a law on hunting, after the repeal of LR 70/96 three years ago. The issuing of the hunting calendar must therefore refer to national legislation (L 157/1992).
Following an order of the Piedmont Regional Administrative Court (which accepted an appeal presented by the hunting associations and the management committees of ATC and CA), the Regional Council has recently modified the hunting calendar for the next hunting season, reintroducing, among other things, the possibility of hunting the ptarmigan.
It is a species which, together with the others belonging to the so-called "typical alpine fauna" (variable hare, black grouse and rock partridge) shows undoubted signs of difficulty. The rock partridge (more precisely its subspecies helveticus, the one present in the Alps), together with rock partridge and black grouse, is included in Annex 1 of Directive 2009/147 / EC, which lists species for which special measures are envisaged conservation.
The hunting calendar also provides for the possibility of hunting the lark, a small mainly insectivorous bird, extremely useful where it controls the populations of insects potentially harmful to agricultural activities. The skylark is decreasing in the region - as confirmed by the Hunting Wildlife Plan itself - while at the community level it is considered a SPEC 3 species, which means that it has an unfavorable conservation status not only in Italy, but throughout the European continent. On the basis of these considerations and the absolute lack of damage caused by the rock partridge and lark species (to which the variable hare joins) to any anthropogenic activity, the Council has decided to vote on the amendments that remove these species from the possibility of being hunted. .
(December 3, 2015)
Source: IlPeriodicodiBiella