Hunting: Pistoia, the Provincial Council has approved the new regulation for the management of ungulates.
News on the hunting of wild boar, roe deer and red deer and on the prevention of damage to agriculture; the Provincial Council, on Thursday 6 March 2014, approved by a large majority, with a single abstention, the Regulations for the management and collection of ungulates in the Province of Pistoia. The Regulations were illustrated in the Council by the Councilor for the Environment, Protected Areas and Hunting of the Province of Pistoia, Rino Fragai. The document represents the implementation phase of the provisions of the Provincial Wildlife Hunting Plan, approved by the Council last December. In particular, the Plan envisaged the redefinition of the area dedicated to ungulates (an area where the presence is tolerable at certain densities) and of the non-suitable area (where it is necessary to aim at their eradication).
Compared to the last PFV, the area dedicated to wild boar has significantly decreased, as all those agricultural areas of plains and hills that were previously part of the hunting districts have been included in the non-suitable area, while now the target for these territories it is a management that tends to the strong containment of the ungulates. Also in the Plan, new homogeneous Districts have been defined for all ungulates (wild boar, roe deer, fallow deer, mouflon and red deer).
It is the first time that the Province of Pistoia has equipped itself with this regulatory instrument: until now, in fact, the various ATC Pistoia 16 regulations existed (wild boar hunting, roe deer, fallow deer and mouflon hunting, deer hunting and use of track dogs). With this act we tried to bring together and make organic the rules foreseen in the previous ATC regulations, moreover indications were given not only on the territories managed by the ATC, but also on the public and private faunal institutes.
Maximum attention was paid to the activities that must be undertaken for the prevention and control of damage to agriculture by ungulates, with clear procedures and responsibilities, to be borne by the various managing subjects. Finally, hunting was regulated in non-suitable areas, in order to try to reach the minimum possible density of ungulates within these areas, characterized by specialized agriculture and by urban and peri-urban fabric.
10 March 2014
Source: Province of Pistoia - GoNews