The Sardinian hunters respond to the decision-making immobility of the Region with a petition, to put the problems of the island's hunting art in the spotlight. First of all, the subject of ungulates.
It is a script that repeats itself, and the protagonists are always the same: the recently published hunting calendar and the hunters dissatisfied with its content.
Every year the same tragedy takes place, yet this year the disappointment of those who awaited the publication of the calendar, was possibly even greater, taking the form of comments, articles and petitions from angry hunters who invade the web.
To make this year different from the others, we thought the false illusion of the legend, the same one that promised hunting in derogation for the month of February, and that, let's face it clearly, had given us hope for the future hunting season. Instead the situation is very different from what was hoped for.
In fact, an unstable season is expected, perhaps more than the previous one, given the footnote of the hunting calendar that puts the thrush hunting in January into question. The directives that will establish the pre and post-nuptial migration dates for thrushes have alerted hunters. It seems that those provided for by the national legislation (from the third Sunday of September to January 31) do not match the directives contained in the ORNIS (document of the European Commission), which instead provides for an early closure of the hunt until January 10.
But this is not the only problem raised by Sardinian hunters, worried not only by the poor management of migratory fauna which, as every year, is repeated, but also and above all by the total indifference shown in relation to protected ungulates: the Sardinian deer. , the Sardinian mouflon and the fallow deer.
If in the 70s these species risked extinction, to date, after a long protection, they have finally sheltered from the problem and colonize the Sardinian woods again. Since wildlife is an unavailable property of the State that the Regions and Provinces must protect and manage, we would have expected, at least for this year, some intervention.
Island ungulates should be subjected to effective studies, so that the best strategy for the conservation of the species can be identified, which above all allows the desired qualitative and quantitative maintenance.
None of that; rather, the Region has stained itself with a tedious immobility, forgetting that doing nothing is not the best way to manage the problem.
These are the arguments that prompted the Union of Hunters of Sardinia, to turn over a request for help, on the most urgent issues in the political world. Hence the need for the petition.