Hunting: Marche, the Regional Council approves two regulations for hunting and the protection of fauna; innovations, compensation for damage to agriculture and management of ungulates.
The Marche Regional Council has approved two regulations implementing the new provisions introduced by the recent amendments to regional law no. 7/1995 containing “Regulations for the protection of wild fauna and for the protection of the environmental balance and discipline of hunting”. Satisfied the regional councilor for hunting, Paolo Eusebi who explained, “These are two regulations related to each other and of absolute importance for the functions of the ATC, Territorial Areas of Hunting and the Provinces”.
One of the regulations governs compensation for damage caused by wildlife and hunting agricultural productions, pastures and works prepared by the owners or tenants of the estates on the cultivated land. Furthermore, innovations and precise methods are introduced to be applied to the entire regional territory in an organic way.
Continuing, Councilor Eusebi added that "Specific changes have been made to the regulation for the management of ungulates: these will allow, starting this year, the activation of new and never tested forms of hunting, such as shooting and selection on wild boar, which will join the more well-known and historical hunted, and which will guarantee, in full compliance with the technical indications and national regulations, a constant monitoring and withdrawal, especially in the spring-summer period, in which the most consistent increases in damage to agricultural production are concentrated ".
The new prescriptions define the minimum conditions to initiate incisive control interventions but equally compatible with territories generally forbidden to hunting, such as the ZRC, Restocking and Capture Areas and Protection Oases. Furthermore, following the proposal made by the Territorial Areas of Hunting and the Provinces, having listened to all the Associations, the procedures for accessing the sampling, the scheduling, the start and the end of the hunting action have been renewed, as well as some procedural aspects that will ensure certain times in the issuing of authorizations.
12 March 2013
Source: ASCA