Hunting and Fauna: the Province of Reggio Calabria implements the resolution on hunting repopulation plans.
The first effects of the revision and planning activities carried out by the Agriculture, Hunting and Fishing Sector of the Province of Reggio Calabria are beginning to be seen; in fact, the Provincial Council approved the document on the "Programming of wildlife reconstruction - hunting interventions for the Province of Reggio Calabria", proposed by the Councilor Gaetano Rao, containing the planning of environmental improvement plans for wildlife and the introduction of wildlife from capture for wildlife repopulation - hunting.
This is a resolution not only approved by the Provincial Council and by the President Raffa but which manages to meet the needs expressed on several occasions by the sector and shared by the Hunting Faunal Council of the aforementioned "Programming of faunal reconstructive interventions - hunting for the Province of Reggio Calabria ".
The resolution had long been awaited considering that the latest environmental improvement plans date back to 2010 for the territories of the ATC RC1 area and even to 2007 as regards the territories of the ATC RC2 area; in the same way as regards the restocking interventions of game in the territory of the entire province of Reggio Calabria, they date back to 2010.
On the issue, the Councilor for Agriculture, Hunting and Fishing of the Province of Reggio Calabria, Gaetano Rao, commented, "We felt it was necessary to proceed immediately with the activation of the planned interventions and concerning, in particular, the actions of environmental improvements and those for the introduction of wild fauna for hunting and wildlife restocking. This is the best time of the year to plan these interventions so that they produce their effects in the desired time ”.
Continuing Rao explained, "To do this we will use part of the sums transferred to us by the Regional Law, as provided for in Article 22, paragraph 2, letter a) where it provides that the Province uses part of the sums transferred from the Region for the implementation of wildlife plans - hunters referred to in Article 6, of the environmental improvement plans and for the eventual purchase of wild fauna for the purpose of restocking ".
In addition, the commissioner Rao said, "We will do it on the basis of the guidelines drawn up by the Agriculture, Hunting and Fishing Sector of the Province of Reggio Calabria which will be followed for the purpose of preparing plans for environmental improvement, introduction and repopulation of wildlife from part of the implementing bodies of the same Program identified in the Territorial Areas of Hunting RC1 and RC2, which include among their duties, as sanctioned by Article 13, paragraph 6, LR 9/96, the planning of "interventions to improve habitat and reconnaissance activities of environmental resources and faunal consistency "as well as" the increase of wild populations ".
Finally Rao concluded with satisfaction, "Thus finally one of the provisions of the Provincial Wildlife Plan is implemented - the provincial hunting plan has among its objectives the environmental improvements for fauna purposes and the restocking through wild caught game, in order to harmonize the objectives in a coherent way with the other planning and programming tools at regional and provincial level.
9 December 2012