As previously announced, environmentalists did not like the 2012-2013 Hunting Calendar despite the changes made to it after the recent convocation of the Regional Fauna Committee and have decided to appeal to the European Commission.
The environmentalists of the Amici della Terra associations, Enpa, the Legal Intervention Group, the League for the Abolition of Hunting and WWF presented, on July 27, an appeal to the European Commission and the Commission for petitions of the European Parliament against the Hunting Calendar. of the Sardinia Region valid for the 2012-2013 Hunting Season including the subsequent amendments as the expected Environmental Impact Assessment would not have been carried out.
In fact, the environmentalists explain on the issue, “To date, no environmental impact assessment has been carried out with regard to hunting in areas classified as sites of community importance (SIC) and / or special protection areas (SPA) respectively pursuant to directive no. 92/43 / EEC on the protection of natural and semi-natural habitats, fauna, flora and n. 09/147 / EC on the protection of wild birds, as required by EU and national jurisprudence ".
The new Sardinian Hunting Calendar had received, before the final resolution including the changes, the negative opinion from ISPRA, the Higher Institute for Environmental Protection and Research, accepting the specific request of the environmental associations.
Continuing on the issue, the environmentalists further explain, "This hunting calendar clearly violates the principles and criteria set out in the ISPRA Guide, drawn up pursuant to article 42 of the 2009 Community law (" Guide for the drafting of hunting calendars pursuant to law 157 / 92, as amended by EU law 2009, art. 42 ") as an indication of minimum national provisions for the maintenance or restoration of the favorable conservation status of wild species (art. 1 bis of law 157/1992 and subsequent amendments) and protection of their biologically most important periods also through the absolute ban on hunting (Article 18, paragraph 1 bis, of Law 157/1992 and subsequent amendments) "
Continuing the environmental associations explaining, "In the first place the necessary precautionary principle is not applied in the absence of faunal censuses and faunal planning acts for the species of the so-called" endangered "resident noble (Sardinian partridge, Sardinian hare), on the contrary it is the daily hunting period has been extended with the forecast of a full day of hunting, when the multi-year total closure would be necessary for the conservation of the species. With regard to the Sardinian Partridge, ISPRA expressed itself clearly: “it must be commensurate with the dynamics of the population with the adoption of collection control mechanisms that allow compliance with the planned plan. In the absence of the management elements just mentioned, hunting should not be allowed "".
Another point of disagreement for the new Hunting Calendar contained in the appeal concerns the hunting periods for some species, in fact environmentalists point out that "the hunting periods for Woodcock, Turdidae, Coot and Anatidae (Mallard, Alzavola , Codone) are much wider than required by the well-known "Key Concepts document on Period of Reproduction and prenuptial Migration of huntable bird Species in the EU", the community guide on the subject ".
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