Caccia: "THE END OF THE WRONG WORLD" In a moment like the one our country is going through - and with it a large part of Europe and the world - characterized by great social, economic, political problems - and unfortunately also by real environmental emergencies and climatic - worrying about the fate of hunting may perhaps appear to most people of secondary importance.
30/11/2011 - I, however, do not think this is the case. On the contrary, I firmly believe that precisely in these situations we must commit ourselves more than ever to guarantee a future for hunting in Italy.
This is not only because hunting is our great passion, but above all because it is from our world of hunters that a decisive contribution can derive for a true regeneration of this sick society.
This sick society, this "crooked world" (as well defined in a good book by Mauro Corona) is close to its end precisely because it has lost along the way the true values which, however, are still well known today to us and to other bearers. of rural culture.
Today more than ever, hunting in Italy is in danger, dragged to the brink certainly also by this "wrong world", but above all for our, all Italian, objective responsibilities.
The "wrong world", in fact, also affects other European countries and the world, but as far as I know it is only in Italy that hunting fails to find its technical, legal, administrative and social balance.
Of course, in our country the sacrosanct and legitimate attempts to modify the sector law or to apply everything that derives from EU directives (exceptions, catches, calendars, reintroduction of huntable species, regulation of SCI / SPA, etc.) , also due to the inability shown by the political, institutional and technical system in charge of this, they always become the object of infinite political exploitation, of equally instrumental animal rights appeals to the TAR, Council of State, Constitutional Court, Council of Ministers and therefore become "prey ”Of controversial and often biased legal interpretations that unreasonably prevent us from enjoying equal rights and duties with our European colleagues.
But this "wrong world" of Italian hunting, this tangled situation, depends above all on us. We cannot keep burying our heads in the sand like ostriches and chasing problems, whatever they may be, in a disorganized and inefficient way, even if we always strive to do it in the best possible way. They must be prevented by eliminating them at the source.
It will be a coincidence, in fact, but everywhere in Europe and in the world hunting is not so hindered and questioned one can find a very different organization of the hunting world that acts united and with specific operational professionalism in all fields of legal and technical interest. , scientific and wildlife that allow him to enjoy social and political credibility and to build serious operational alliances in particular with the agricultural world.
I have already said this several times in the past and now I am returning to the office even if this has up to now only yielded me the qualification of utopian and dreamer. Someone also told me to stop, someone else will now repeat it, but I don't care.
I allow myself to insist: the Italian hunting world can no longer go on with the divisions that unfortunately still characterize it (not only between Associations but also between practitioners of different forms of hunting) but must find the courage and the sense of responsibility to leave the past and change, by joining organizationally to act in a proactive, more incisive and unitary way, forging concrete alliances with the agricultural world and with the rest of the sector supply chain.
We are in crisis and we are in danger: it is necessary to act immediately for a "national emergency unit" that is not fixed-term like the Monti government but stable and lasting. It is necessary to really build a "Hunting System" in Italy that relates in a strong and credible way with society.
A system that fully plays its trade union, technical, scientific and - why not - political role, but not bringing politics into the hunt (I don't care for those who are committed to a party of hunters or rurality, a choice that as I have already said in the past I absolutely respect but do not agree), but rather bringing, even with the direct commitment of hunters citizens willing to do so in compliance with the political ideas of each, the awareness of the importance and economic, social, civil role and environment of hunting in politics in a transversal and not partisan way, thus increasing our integration and not our isolation.
Only in this way, in my opinion, will we truly achieve the balance that the hunting world has already found in the rest of Europe and will we have a future. And only in this way will we be able to make a contribution to the solution of this social crisis and to try to straighten the fate of this "twisted world".
We owe it to ourselves, we owe it to our partners, but we also owe it to the company, our children and future generations, including hunters. And that is why I insist, even if I can annoy someone and appear a utopian or a dreamer, hoping that the hunters who share these evaluations of mine, to whatever Association they belong, can somehow give me a hand to realize this dream.
The President ANUUMigratorists
Marco Castellani