Hunting: Pistoia, the Province has approved the Hunting Calendar concerning the selection hunt for ungulates valid for the 2014-2015 Hunting Season.
For these species, hunting is organized according to sampling plans, which pre-determine the quota of animals that can be slaughtered, in order to keep the natural increase in populations under control and to contain its negative impact on agricultural and forestry activities. The provision, in compliance with the provisions of Regional Law 20/2002 on the hunting calendar of the Tuscany Region, takes into account the opinion of ISPRA - Higher Institute of Environmental Protection and Research, also with regard to the periods of the year in which it is appropriate to preclude or allow the hunting exercise of the various classes: young / adult and male / female.
As in the previous year, the selective hunting of roe deer (males, juveniles and adults only) is brought forward to June 15, with the possibility of culling until July 14; it then starts again from August 16 until September 29, as in recent years. Roe deer females and young will be hunted only from January 1st to March 15th 2015; also for the adult male deer there is confirmation of the times of last year since this year it will not be possible to start the plans before 1 October, on the advice of ISPRA.
The duration of the collection period is important to ensure that the number of animals foreseen by the plan is largely achieved and thus avoid that, especially when the autumn-winter months are characterized by difficult weather conditions and repeated snowfalls (hunting is prohibited under these conditions), the number of culled animals is much lower than planned and therefore insufficient to control the populations.
To this end, other regions, such as Emilia Romagna, had already for several years implemented the early opening to adult and young male roe deer, in order to counteract the increase in the density of the species taking place in the area; for Tuscany this is a novelty, which required some additional organizational effort, but to which most of the Provinces have joined. The Province of Pistoia reminds that the coexistence of hunting with other outdoor activities is ensured by timely compliance with the safety rules, which hunters qualified for these species (selecontrollers) must comply with.
For the other huntable species it is not yet possible to define the hunting calendar as a sentence of the Constitutional Court last year intervened on the regional law of reference and the provision that defines the provincial indications for the hunting season is subject to the issuance of new directives. regional through a specific administrative act.
For greater clarity, the dates of the hunting calendar of the Province of Pistoia relating to the selective collection of roe deer, red deer and fallow deer are shown below.
- Roe deer:
adult and young males: from 15 June to 14 July and from 16 August to 29 September 2014;
females: from January 1st to March 15th 2015;
children: from January 1st to March 15th 2015;
- fallow deer:
male sheet piles and crossbows: from 1 November 2014 to 15 March 2015;
male fusoni: from 1 to 29 September 2014 and from 1 November 2014 to 15 March 2015;
females: from January 1st to March 15th 2015;
children: from January 1st to March 15th 2015;
-Deer:
adult males: from 1 October 2014 to 15 February 2015;
sub-adult males: from 1 October 2014 to 15 March 2015;
young males: from 2 August to 15 September 2014 and from 1 October 2014 to 15 March 2015; adult females, thin and small: from 1 January to 15 March 2015.
Province of Pistoia
(June 13, 2014)