Hunting, Exemptions and Hunting Calendars: in Assisi ANUU Migrators launches new perspectives during the conference on the theme "Wildlife: good management thanks to scientific research for greater certainty on calendars and exceptions".
On the afternoon of Tuesday 23 July, as part of the 2nd edition of "VINIASSISI - Our land", a review of Assisi wines organized by the local ANUUMigratoristi group, chaired by Alvaro Antonini, the Conference entitled "Wild Fauna : good management thanks to scientific research for greater certainty on calendars and exceptions ". The event, hosted in the Migaghelli Stadium of S. Maria degli Angeli, with the splendid panoramic background offered by the city of Assisi, saw a large participation of the public who carefully followed all the interventions of the speakers called to bring their contribution to the work which were excellently introduced and coordinated by the provincial president ANUUMigratoristi of Perugia, Eraldo Martelli. Also present was the regional President, Vladimiro Boschi. The Deputy Mayor of Assisi, Antonio Lunghi, welcomed all the participants to the city of Assisi. Franco Granocchia, hunting delegate of the Province of Perugia, brought the greetings of the administration and recalled the commitment made on the various faunal-hunting issues, hoping that in the matter of derogations a coordination table between the regions of Italy could take shape. central office most affected. Therefore, the lawyer took the floor. Giovanni Bana, Past-President of ANUU Migrationists who with an articulated and interesting intervention highlighted how, despite the differences in Italian hunting compared to that practiced in other European countries, it is necessary to be able to adapt the European directives on the subject to our reality to guarantee also to Italian hunters the same rights and duties as their European colleagues.
The lawyer Bana underlined how this applies, in particular, to the question of the exceptions that are normally applied in all European countries, albeit for species and reasons other than those of interest to Italy. Finally, the lawyer Bana highlighted how recent pronouncements of the European Commission, in response to specific requests made by FACE, the Federation of European Hunting Associations, definitively and unequivocally clarify that the exceptions provided for by Article 9 of the Birds Directive can be applied to all avifauna species included in Annex II of the Directive and with particular regard to sedentary populations, that is, the breeding contingents of these migratory species in the various European countries.
So, if you want to give an example of some species of great interest for different Italian regions such as Veneto, Liguria, Lombardy, Umbria, Tuscany, etc., it is possible to work to arrive at derogation measures for the removal of the starling and the finch in full. compliance with all European provisions, provided that the Regions have the scientific data necessary to evaluate these breeding quotas and, therefore, to calculate the small quantities that can be taken. Andrea Trenti, national manager for traditional hunts of ANUUMigratoristi, then took the floor and illustrated in detail all the main technical aspects that must characterize an administrative provision on derogations in order to be respectful of European guidelines.
Trenti therefore underlined the importance of the role that the Regional Observatories can play in making available the scientific reference data at the local level that can be adopted to support the reasons for the resolutions regarding derogations and calendars. Vasco Feligetti, Provincial President of the Italian Pigeon Club, Daniel Tramontana, of the Migratory Birdlife Office of Federcaccia, and Umberto Sergiacomi, Director of the Wildlife Observatory of the Umbria Region, also contributed to the work, underlining the importance of information provided regarding the clarifications on the exceptions expressed by the European Commission, since this, in effect, opens up new job opportunities to set correct resolutions for the removal of starlings and finches, which are abundantly resident and nesting species in Umbria.
Of great depth and relevance the intervention of the Regional Councilor for Agriculture, Hunting and Fishing, Fernanda Cecchini, who declared her appreciation for the theme assigned to the conference and for the reports that respected it, bringing valuable elements of technical information -scientific and juridical on the subject of hunting. Councilor Cecchini shared the importance assigned to scientific research and to a rigorous way of working which, as the Umbrian experience teaches, then leads to the adoption of correct and defensible administrative acts in the face of any appeal. Then the Councilor Cecchini declared his willingness to investigate the new information gathered by the Conference to verify the possibility of starting the procedure necessary to define a possible measure for the withdrawal in derogation of the transfer and finch.
The proceedings were closed by the closing speech of the National President of ANUU Migrationists, Marco Castellani, who underlined the importance of the topics covered and of a technical-scientific approach to the subject, free from any attempt of political exploitation or anti-hunt, to succeed in give visibility exclusively to the truth, legal certainties to hunters and a future to our traditional hunts, for which a true and substantial unity of the hunting world is also necessary, which can only be achieved with the establishment of a new and unique Association of Italian hunters .
July 24 2013
ANUU Migrators