It is a resolution of the Region to prohibit hunting notwithstanding the starling in Fucecchio, it has not been decided by the Province of Florence.
The Vice President of the Province of Florence with responsibility for hunting, Laura Catini, responded to the controversy raised by some hunters from Fucecchio regarding the non-granting of the derogation for starling hunting, "Unfortunately, our request to extend the withdrawals was not accepted. to all the municipalities of the provincial territory ".
Catini, in fact, explained “Failure to grant Fucecchio the exemption for hunting starlings depends on a resolution of the regional council. The Province of Florence has absolutely nothing to do with this decision. The representatives of Federcaccia and Arcicaccia provincial and of the area are well aware of this, and during the summer they supported our attempt, which was later in vain, to convince the Tuscany Region to extend the derogation for hunting starlings to the whole provincial territory ".
"We understand very well the disappointment expressed by the hunters of Fucecchio - adds Laura Cantini - but as regards the hunt for starlings it is necessary to refer to the resolution of the Regional Council number 741 of 29 August 2011, with which it was considered appropriate to implement the withdrawals only in the municipalities where damage exceeding a certain amount had occurred and where there were crops (in particular vineyards, orchards and olive groves) susceptible to serious damage by starlings. For this purpose, a restricted list of municipalities was prepared by the Region of which, unfortunately, Fucecchio was not part, nor other municipalities in the area and in the province ”. "Notwithstanding - continues Cantini - that the Region has increasing difficulties in issuing provisions in derogation from national and European regulations".
“The situation experienced by the hunters of Fucecchio - comments the Vice-President - also concerns other realities of the provincial territory, because only 10 Florentine municipalities have been authorized to withdraw as an exception. Thus paradoxical situations have arisen in which some hunters from the neighboring municipality are authorized while others, a few hundred meters away, cannot hunt the starlings, which instead move, obviously, regardless of administrative boundaries ".
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