Hunting in Sassari: the new Provincial Wildlife Hunting Plan is coming between consultations and changes before actual approval.
“To hunters the management of the temporary restocking and trapping areas of wild boars, with priority to those who reside in the municipalities that host the wildlife protection areas”. It is one of the forecasts of the Provincial Hunting Wildlife Plan, which the Environment sector of the Province of Sassari has drawn up with the Department of Zoology of the University of Sassari and the coordination of Professor Marco Apollonio.
"The proliferation of wild boars also affects the agricultural sector and must be tackled in a decisive way, with the implementation of numerical control plans for populations and the involvement of assistants registered in the provincial register, but it must not be a pretext for not proceeding with the adoption of the Plan ”, said the provincial councilor for the environment, Paolo Denegri, in the premise formulated during the meeting called to present the plan to the provincial wildlife committee.
The process of approval of the provincial wildlife hunting plan has therefore begun. After the discussion with the Committee, which will continue next Tuesday, there will be the first passage in the provincial council for the adoption of the Plan. This will be followed by publication and the possibility for interested parties to make comments within sixty days. After the examination and possible acceptance of the observations, the plan will return to the council for definitive approval and will flow into the regional hunting plan, currently under construction, which for four years will bind the planning of the hunting activity.
"The Province has jurisdiction for the compensation of damage caused by wildlife, so we know when the fears are legitimate and when they are spurious", is the reflection with which the commissioner Denegri tries to "restore some order with respect to the many things that 'topic they recently talked about ”, as he points out.
"In the province there are no" parcomani ", as defined by those who claim that we are obsessed with the establishment of protected areas," says Denegri. In truth, he adds, “the regional law establishes that 20-30% of the agrosilvopastoral territory is reserved for areas of environmental protection, and we cannot derogate”.
Well, "even within the precise regulatory framework, we have avoided creating imbalances between municipalities - explains Paolo Denegri - we have taken into account numerous technical-ecological aspects, reaching different percentages between one municipal area and another, but without anomalies or situations of disadvantage for anyone ". The last reflection is "for those mayors, few to tell the truth, who accuse the Province of having dropped a hasty proposal from above". The provincial councilor asks them where they were "while their colleagues were at the many meetings organized by us to share the salient aspects of the Plan".
Especially since "the identification of the areas has been going on for two years, during which the technicians of the Province and University have worked assiduously on the documents and through numerous inspections". And since the beginning of 2011, "this activity was accompanied by meetings with municipal administrators and other bodies responsible for the control and management of fauna - insists Denegri - to share the choices of environmental planning and respect the needs of the territories" .
In the meetings organized in the Province and on the territory "some mayors did not participate, except to formulate the generic and crude accusations of these days out of time".
November 6, 2012
Source: BuongiornoAlghero