Umbrian hunters from wild boar teams take to the streets to protest against the hunting calendar, approved by the Region for the 2011/2012 hunting season, as they say it penalizes them.
The protest There are over 250 teams to which about 12 Umbrian hunters are enrolled, who were "shocked" to see their requests for the hunting calendar rejected for the part concerning boar hunting. "Requests - they say - on the other hand shared by important hunting associations, and by the provinces of Perugia and Terni (positions expressed on 20 June 2011 in the hearing called by the III Board of Directors of the Umbria Region)".
The proposals The Coordination, with its own press release dated 8 June 2011 and even earlier in a meeting with the Regional Councilor Fernanda Cecchini, proposed: opening of the wild boar hunting October 1st and closing on December 31st, allowing both single and driven hunting for three days a week on Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays, providing the possibility for the provinces to postpone this date or, where necessary, provide for interventions containment.
Problems "The hunting calendar approved, moves three days of wild boar hunting from the first week of October to 18, 24 and 25 September without any valid reason. It does not produce any positive effect for the agricultural world as on 18 September there are no more crops at risk, and in any case it was possible to intervene with special levies indicated by the provinces ". According to the hunters, “it is not true that it produces less hunting pressure on other game species. Suffice it to say that from September 26th to October 8th, wild boar hunting is expected to be closed. Instead, it produces an effect. Considering that the days 18, 24 and 25 September are also those of the beginning of the hunting season and therefore the days that see more hunters exercising their passion; Allowing bullets to be fired on those days increases the risk of accidents. In the face of prevention ».
Single hunters «This calendar also has - for hunters - another gem. Allowing single hunters to hunt the boar also on Mondays and Wednesdays, it encourages conflict between hunters, as well as encouraging non-compliance with the rules. In particular, it pushes the less respectful hunters to hunt even four or five days a week for sedentary game, when the law allows a maximum of three. Is all this to the regional councilor interested in nothing?
Still in time The coordination evaluates "all of this in a very negative way, and has the conviction that an attempt has been underway for some time to deconstruct an organizational system for managing the wild boar species based on the centrality of the teams, whose positive results are certified by the data concerning precisely the damage to agriculture which is significantly decreasing. We ask the councilor and the regional council to modify the current calendar by accepting the two proposals that we have repeatedly explained and proposed above. We still have time. The regional coordination of the teams, having assessed the attitude had by the Regional Councilor, if our proposals are not implemented, will take on all legal and permitted initiatives, both legal and political ».
Solidarity politicians Several politicians sympathized with the hunters: Granocchia (Idv), Baldelli, up to the leader of the Socialist Party in the Regional Council, Massimo Buconi, who met them in Piazza Italia: "We understand the discontent of some of the hunters for the opening of the wild boar hunting simultaneously with the start of the hunting season - said Buconi -. We need a regional law to establish a permanent and not annual hunting calendar ». Buconi reiterated that «it is necessary, as a Regional Council, to put our hand to the hunting question: we must reunite the hunting world and this can be done with certain rules and listening to everyone's needs. For this reason, as group leader I presented a motion in which it is asked to create a hunting calendar through a regional law, both for greater compatibility with the texts of the neighboring regions and to write valid points between now and the next few years, avoiding bargaining. annual. The motion also foresees appropriate changes for hunting notwithstanding the starling and the finch ».
Source: Umbria24