Launched the 2012-2013 Hunting Calendar of the Veneto Region for the next Hunting Season: the comment of ANUU Migratoristi.
Also this year the Veneto Region with its own administrative act (Council Resolution of 12 June 2012), has issued the Hunting Calendar for the next hunting season. Certainly improved compared to the previous year (see for example the harvesting periods of Colombaccio, Tordo sassello and Cesena), thanks also to our motivated and documented suggestions based on the technical document sent by FACE Italia to all the Regions and autonomous Provinces, in contrast to the indications of the ISPRA, so restrictive as to appear punitive, such as those that made it impossible to take the wood pigeon and other aquatic species in the first ten days of February as requested by us, because it is technically and scientifically possible.
Of course, no longer being able to approve the hunting calendar by law (given the recent rulings of the Constitutional Court concerning Abruzzo and Liguria) is today an obstacle of no small weight: but if the Veneto Region had followed this strategy in the recent past, in the wake of Lombardy, Tuscany, Marche and other Regions, at least for a few years our hunter citizens would have lived with legal certainty, without being continually exposed to the sword of Damocles of the usual and instrumental appeals to the TAR by the usual suspects. A strategic choice that our Association has in vain solicited for a long time.
Now we would like, precisely in order for hunting to have continuity, that all the subjects in the field respect their role: the Region in defining the rules, the Provinces in applying and enforcing these rules and the ATCs in managing the wildlife heritage with planning, aiming at a sustainable collection of wildlife in respect of local culture, traditions and hunting customs, interfacing with other social realities.
This also means not placing additional limitations with respect to those already provided for in the laws in force, because ATCs do not have the right, except under very particular conditions and in any case codified in the rules.
This year some Provinces have made interpreters of restrictive requests by ATC without real motivation other than that of restricting a priori due to the inability to guarantee effective supervision by the bodies in charge. Ultimately, this means recognizing one's managerial inability and making a “shit out of it all”.
Undoubtedly, it is easier to introduce restrictions than to carry out specific intervention projects on the territory, as it is easier to process the intentions of hunters rather than educating and empowering them by making them actors involved in the management of the same.
This is not utopia, but it is the great challenge that Venetian and Italian hunters have to face and win if we are convinced that hunting is a resource and not a problem, as happens in many other European countries.
Certainly our association will not passively witness the loss of that ancient hunting culture that so fascinates us and that unites peoples and peoples, but will try by every means, be it training, informative or legal, to defend it from instrumental attacks and any other restrictions, wherever it comes from, if not solidly justified from a technical and scientific point of view.
It is possible to view the new Venetian Hunting Calendar and its attachments at the following links:
Veneto Region Hunting Calendar 2012-2013, AttachmentA and AttachmentC - Interpretative Guideline.
ANUUMigrationists Veneto