Hunting: Lombardy, the Councilor for Agriculture of the Lombardy Region, Gianni Fava, writes to the Minister Gian Luca Galletti about the Roccoli to catch live decoys, “Hunters have the right to answers”.
The opinions of ISPRA and, in particular, the recent amendment made by European law to the national law on hunting (L. 157/92) risks putting an end to the use of roccoli for catching live decoys to be used for hunting.
LETTER TO MINISTER - Starting from this observation, the Councilor for Agriculture of the Lombardy Region Gianni Fava took a pen and paper and formally wrote to Minister Gian Luca Galletti asking for an urgent meeting to clarify, the letter reads, "if and what are the spaces through which this administration (Lombardy Region) can legitimately authorize the capture activity carried out by the roccoli and what are the actions that the Government intends to implement to safeguard the roccoli, as structures of high landscape-environmental value, and the traditional activities that take place in them, to protect the hunting world and a traditional hunting practice. "
PARADOXAL SITUATION - “We are in a paradoxical situation which is a bit like the mirror of this country. - explains the regional councilor - Despite having fully respected the commitments made with the European Commission and the Ministry of the Environment, this year the Lombardy Region is unable to open the roccoli due to an ISPRA opinion which, in addition to being poorly motivated , stands in sharp contrast to other opinions previously issued ". "If this were not enough - the Lombard councilor still complains - to try to put an end to the use of roccoli then came the recent regulatory changes to Law 157/92, introduced with article 21 of the European law, which prohibit expressly the use of the networks ".
SERIOUS CONSEQUENCES - “The situation is serious - underlines Fava - the failure to activate the roccoli would lead to devastating consequences over time. In the first place, the roccoli, marvelous works of human ingenuity that characterize the Lombard rural landscape, would irreparably decline. Secondly, failure to activate these systems would result in the objective impossibility of supplying Lombard hunters with live calls and therefore the disappearance, over time, of hunting from stalking in Lombardy ”.
GOVERNMENT OF CLEAR ANSWERS - “Hunters are fundamental actors in the rural world, citizens who regularly pay what they owe for the exercise of their activity and who have every right to have a clear picture of the situation. The Government must give clear answers to these gentlemen. The answers concern this particular category but in general all Lombard citizens. The roccoli and our traditional hunting practices - concludes Fava - are the patrimony of all the Lombards ”.
(29 August 2015)
Gianni Fava
Councilor for Agriculture of the Lombardy Region