I live calls they will come from France and Malta to avoid micro poaching. The absurd in Lombardy region. This is the painful reality, arising from a Regional Council of the most important region of Italy, which has come about exploited by a message that a senior official of the Ministry of the environment, with a readiness worthy of a better cause, he transmitted to his colleague of the Department of Agriculture with the threat of "tax damage", knowing full well that the collection of turdidae, as live calls for hunting from stalking, takes place on unprotected species and which enjoy an excellent state of conservation! It was followed by the Councilor for Agriculture, Fabio Rolfi, who was careful not to defend the PDL signed by Floriano Massardi, of his own party and supported with determined conviction by the Councilor of the Brothers of Italy, Barbara Mazzali, limiting himself to say (the shorthand of the Regional Council is kept available) that the hunters have already had a lot from the Region with the two supplementary days from fixed posting and with the taking of the skylark in a specialized form, without defending, in the classroom, in any way, the PDL on the supply of live calls.
In short, hunting has given reason to divide the camps that have forgotten about those who live in the countryside or in the valleys who are beginning to no longer want to know about this way of doing politics, as stated by the regional president. ANUUMigrators of Lombardy, Domenico Grandini (the only Association that fought for the protection of the sheds), nauseated by this behavior: "In the Commission they were perfectly in agreement even after the hearing-non-hearing of the representative of the ISPRA from which it is well understood that he had to follow the political guidelines of the Ministry of the Environment, leaving aside the reality of the facts and regulations in force, also at European level, which legitimize the taking, such as live calls, of thrushes, larks, lapwings, golden plovers in France and Malta with nets and other methods, the latter, which are prohibited by us! " It was a missed opportunity because people no longer trust institutions, also from Lombardy, not to mention the person of Councilor Rolfi who, immediately after the vote, as if to be forgiven by his offices, declared that he was setting up a working table on the issue.
But couldn't he have done it before, everyone wonders? But we want to summarize - in pills - the European situation for the Regional Councilors, who have taken great care not to investigate the matter, and for the hunting associations that have followed the wave of the Department not to displease the Councilor's address and offices, forgetting the European law n. 115/2015, which pointed out on the specific matter: · the sampling for live calls, as is the case in France and Malta, is carried out on huntable species; · The so-called “tax damage” could be hypothesized if it occurred on protected species (outside Annex II of the Birds Directive); · the nets are “selective” as envisaged since 1996 by ISPRA itself on the advice of the Ministry of Agriculture; · The systems are those "endorsed" by ISPRA itself since 1992; · The authorized persons have a regular license; · The Lombardy Region for several years has equipped itself with a database on the owners of stalking, owners of live calls, to monitor the annual needs, very modest in numbers; · Farms do not represent an adequate solution, as also amply demonstrated by the regional offices. All this happens in Europe, except in Lombardy, where - at the political level - we are already thinking about the next European elections in May 2019. To the good connoisseur …… ..!
It was foreseeable that the sheds for live calls would turn to other EU countries where this is allowed !!!