Hunting and Hunters: the 1st Meeting of the States General of Sicily's Hunting took place in Comiso, in the province of Ragusa.
The 1st Meeting of the States General of the Hunting di Sicilia, held in Comiso (RG), on the theme: “Hunting Wildlife Management in the Sicilian region. The role of hunting associations ". The Meeting registered about 250 participants (almost 200 signed on the participation register). Carmelo Francesco Alfano, spokesman of the Interassociative Hunting Committee of the province of Ragusa, promoter of the initiative, whose primary purpose was to shake up the hunting associations in finding the unitary square to defend the interests of the category that are not unrelated to those of the environment. In the introductory report Alfano underlined that the hunting world is inseparable from the protection of wildlife, given that this is the title of the sector law (L. 157/92 - Protection of wildlife and discipline of hunting), therefore the matter is protected by the legal system and other things could not be, because the legal qualification of the fauna has long since been changed from "res nullius" to "unavailable property of the State".
He also stressed that wildlife, in the Sicilian Region, in spite of the law and the obligation of management by the Public Administration, does not receive any care from the latter, resulting in the abandonment of the territories, the debilitation of the presences. wildlife that often get sick, without any sanatorium even less preventive, and then suffer the inevitable infectious attacks that, from time to time, alarm governments and populations.
The Wildlife Hunting Departments, offices in charge of the management of the matter, have been practically ignored, left without personnel and without resources, now even dismantled by delegating, incompetently and illegally, Rural Development to deal with the matter. Yet there are legal obligations and financial mechanisms to operate on the matter, see art. 23 of Law 157/92 which states: "The regions, in order to obtain the financial means necessary to achieve the purposes envisaged by this law and by the relevant regional laws, are authorized to institute a regional concession tax ... ..".
In Sicily the tax is € 84 for each hunter. But this has not prevented from suffocating the various Recovery Centers existing in Sicily, from not carrying out the appropriate and obligatory sector studies on the differentiated management of the territories, and from establishing the obligatory Management Committees of the Territorial Areas of Hunting. If compliance with the law is the priority task of every subject called to apply it, the constant violation of the regulatory provisions on wildlife-hunting by the regional administration makes it assume a sinister light in the concept of responsibility, because the idea, in the common citizen, that the law can be violated with impunity and, in Sicily, this is the worst didactic of legality. He concluded by saying that the defense of the environment, in it the protection of wildlife, is a matter from which to test the degree of civilization of a people and how much they care about their destiny and survival.
The regional presidents Avv. Giuseppe Evola dell'Enalcaccia, Sebastiano Valfrè of ANUU, Giuseppe Rovituso of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies and Giovanni Immordino of the Hunting Federation of the Regions of Europe. The national councilor Enalcaccia rag. Giuseppe Curatolo and many provincial presidents of many Sicilian provinces of the various hunting associations that dot the Sicilian scenario. There were many hunters from all over Sicily, even from municipalities in the distant provinces of Trapani, Palermo, Agrigento. Many provincial presidents and many hunters intervened in the afternoon debate to express their unease about the abandonment of the territories by the regional government.
The works were concluded by delegating, by acclamation, Carmelo Francesco Alfano to elaborate a unitary proposal in which all the hunting associations operating in Sicily know how to join, pursuing the necessary associative unity in order to obtain greater attention and greater respect from the Regional Government. , on the proposals that arise and on the needs that are required by the wildlife-hunting sector in Sicily.
(10 July 2015)
Source: RadioRTM - Photo: RadioRTM