Milan hosted the 61st General Assembly of the CIC, the International Council for Hunting and Safeguarding the Fauna. Four days of work, 431 participants, 43 countries represented: these are the numbers of the event that for a few days brought together in the Lombard capital the main exponents not only of the world hunting world, but also of numerous international organizations protagonists in the conservation and sustainable use of natural resources. The warm welcome was witnessed by the Mayor Giuliano Pisapia, by the Lombard Regional Councilor for Hunting Gianni Fava and by the Director of EXPO2015 Piero Galli, who intervened with significant greetings at the inaugural ceremony. This year, the main theme of the Assembly "Youth, hunting and biodiversity", with the aim of bringing youth back to hunting, was declined by four children between 12 and 15 years of age seated at the presidency table throughout the inaugural ceremony, which in English addressed an auspicious message to the entire assembly. An incisive and completely innovative message in the CIC tradition, which was reinforced by the summit "Hunters united against wildlife crime - hunters united against wildlife crime", during which, for the first time in history, as both President Bernard Lozé and Director General Tamas Marghescu, the hunters promoted discussions with the relevant authorities in order to help find solutions to effectively and durably combat the scourge of for-profit poaching, which is causing serious damage to many wild species especially in Africa and Asia.
This is the main reason why police bodies such as Interpol and the State Forestry Corps contributed to the debate, together with exponents of international conventions such as CITES, the Convention on Biological Diversity (CDB) and the Convention on Migratory Species ( CMS). The main operational message that emerged from the various sessions outside the summit, however, was that of the need for the figure of the hunter as a primary actor in the area, which today can no longer do without all the organs and subjects that deal with wildlife, both in health monitoring optics to protect human health from the risk of zoonoses (the presence of the OIE, the World Organization for Animal Health, is fundamental in this regard), both with a view to protecting zoo-agro-forestry productions and therefore of rural economies, and finally for pure research purposes in the field of genetics and, therefore, of the classification of species and subspecies in nature. But that's not enough: alongside these three main axes, the equally important topic of nutrition and the respectable place that game meat should occupy in the sector was raised.
Vast themes discussed extensively in the pre-congress symposium «The hunt for Ungulates between tradition and innovation», strongly desired and organized by the CIC Italy Delegation, which saw renowned and prestigious speakers such as prof. Sandro Lovari and Marco Apollonio of the Universities of Siena and Sassari, Riccardo Orusa director of CERMAS - National Reference Center for Wild Animal Diseases, the Italian wildlife technicians Vito Mazzarone for URCA, Luca Pellicioli for UNCZA and Stefano Mattioli, as well as the technicians Richard Harris from Montana and Vernon Booth from South Africa.
As both the Head of Delegation of CIC Italy Giovanni Bana and the Vice President of CIC Massimo Marracci remarked, today the mission of the hunting world, here more than elsewhere, must be the escape from a place that no longer belongs to it, reaffirming itself in the community by making people understand how much hunters citizens can be useful (if not irreplaceable) fulcrum and "forcing" the institutions to recognize their irreplaceable role as protagonists of the territory for the territory. Next to the main hall, visitors were able to admire an exceptional, large diorama on the most emblematic habitats of our country - alpine mountains, Apennine mountains and wetlands with relative species of typical fauna and flora - accompanied by an equally beautiful review of the best trophies. of all huntable ungulates, both set up by the Federcaccia di Parma in coordination with the National Commission CIC Grand Gibier / Exhibitions & Trophies animated by Bruno Vigna and Giovanni Persona.
At the end of the Assembly, the usual passing of the baton took place between the organizers of this year's assembly and those who will take care of the next, specifically the Bulgarian Delegation which in April 2015 will host the 62nd General Assembly in Sofia. In short, a balance of important principles and strategies, which we hope will find concrete application in the daily management of hunting as a sustainable and conservative activity.
CIC
(May 1, 2014)
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