Hunting: Reggio Emilia, unanimously approved by the Provincial Council the new wildlife hunting plan; measures to reduce the damage caused by ungulates.
The Provincial Council of Reggio Emilia, chaired by Giammaria Manghi, unanimously approved yesterday morning - with 9 votes in favor - the Wildlife Hunting Plan for the 2015-2016 season. The document, as the managing director Andrea Tagliavini explained in the classroom, aims above all to reduce the damage caused by ungulates, especially the boars, to agricultural crops. To this end, as also requested by the hunting associations and by the territorial hunting area (Atc) Re3 Collina, it has been established, among other things, that the minimum limit of the number of participants in hunting wild boar in hunt is, as also foreseen by the regional regulation on the subject, of 15 participants (the limit of 25, especially for teams operating in areas with a low presence of wild boars, represents "an often insurmountable barrier" compromising the exercise of hunting, in addition the presence of a large number of hunters could also increase the risks for the safety of residents and participants, especially in areas characterized by scattered urban settlements).
Finally, for the 2015-2016 hunting season, the new Wildlife Plan will experiment with the establishment of buffer areas even smaller than 50 hectares as an instrument of both fauna protection and consensual resolution (given that the proposal of buffer areas is to the Atc) of particular situations in which the application of the protection rules provided for by the national hunting law are not sufficient to avoid conflicts between hunting and anthropogenic activities.
(10 July 2015)
Province of Reggio Emilia