Hunting prohibited in the Melorie area in the Municipality of Ponsacco, in the province of Pisa; you shoot too close to the houses during the Hunting Season due to the lack of updating of the urban plan.
The Melorie area in Ponsacco (PI) will no longer be the area of hunting. The citizens have won their battle by getting the attention of the municipal administration. The problem started in 2006, when houses were built in the hamlet. In the meantime, however, there has never been an adaptation of the new urban plan to the hunting prohibitions. The hunters, therefore, continued to travel to this area, although the distances of safety from homes. Every year, with the beginning of the hunting season, on the scheduled hunting days and on weekends and holidays, the Melorie area was affected by a concentration of hunters, which seriously endangered the safety of the inhabitants, farmers and of passers-by. In the last year there have been alarming incidents: some hunters fired in the shelter of the children's garden, forcing a grandmother with grandchildren to escape and also some cats in the area were hit by bullets, in addition to the rain of pellets that often arrived at the windows. of residents. There have been many calls to the provincial police and the forest, which on some occasions even caught the hunters in the act and fined them. Despite this, the hunters, as some residents explain, never got discouraged and continued their hunting activity.
Some residents, therefore, with the fundamental support of the Dav association (animal defense, life environment), have decided to start a formal protest. 154 signatures were collected from exasperated people who for years have suffered from the presence of hunters near their homes or even crouched behind the hedge of their gardens, waiting for the game. The mayor of Ponsacco was asked to immediately adopt all those measures aimed at guaranteeing the safety of citizens and respect for their peace, in order to avoid the risks associated with the use of firearms.
Now the Melorie area between the freeway, Via Verne, Via Gabbiano, Via Colombo, Via Pigafetta, Viale Europa will be considered an area in which it will no longer be possible to hunt, with the consequent installation of special signs indicating a ban on hunting.
15 January 2015
Source: IlTirreno - Pontedera