Hunting: Siena, the Provincial Council approved by a majority the Wildlife Hunting Plan valid for the period 2012 - 2015.
In the session of Monday 29 July, the Provincial Council of Siena gave the green light to the Vena-torio Fauna Plan 2012 - 2015. The document with immediate execution, presented by the councilor for agriculture and hunting Anna Maria Betti, was voted by the majority (14 votes in favor) and Donatella Santinelli and Marco Andreassi (Pdl) voted against; Giovanni Di Stasio (Federated Tuscany) and the directors Massimo Mori and Francesco Michelotti (Brothers of Italy). In the next few days, the Plan will be sent to the Regional Council, for the verification of the coherence with the Forestry Agricultural Plan of the Tuscany Region (Praf). "The wildlife plan - said the commissioner Anna Maria Betti presenting the document - committed us for a year and a half of intense and participatory work that saw the ATC, the agricultural, environmental and hunting world collaborate with the Province, through the Table on hunting, and the institutional subjects, from the Municipalities to the Commission and the Provincial Council. I thank everyone for the valuable contribution that has also come from others with observations, notes, and even informal reflections. We have adopted the objectives and guidelines contained in the Praf and repositioned them taking into account not only the territorial characteristics, but also the profound changes that have taken place over the years; I am thinking of the social and economic dynamics, as well as the more strictly faunal-hunting ones. The basic choice is wildlife management based on sustainability and biodiversity, through social and participatory hunting and greater integration between the fundamental components of this territory: agriculture, hunting, the environment ”.
"Ambitious goal - said Betti - especially in a phase of reduction of public resources and voluntary work and in the presence of a complex, fragmented regulatory system and, as we have been denouncing for some time, now - never absolutely inadequate to give effective and rapid answers to needs of the territories. This will require greater adherence than in the past to the objectives given, through greater collaboration between the many subjects involved, starting with the ATCs, and more integration between the areas, functions and institutions, whether public or private. The Plan gives precise guidelines in this sense, calling the agricultural, environmental and hunting components to team up with the institutions for a more balanced management, able to represent a real opportunity not only for farmers, environmentalists and hunters, but for the the entire territory, at the top in Italy for biodiversity and known throughout the world for the quality of the environment and the landscape it knows how to express. The Province therefore intends to continue with the consultation method, confirming the central role of the Table in the field of hunting wildlife management and also providing tools for involving the various local components for a continuous comparison on the social consequences of the choices, but also on the proposals and projects that, I am sure, the territories will be able to express ".
The incidental agenda presented by the majority. In addition to the Hunting Wildlife Plan, an incidental Agenda was presented signed by Marco Nasorri (Pd), Alberto Taccioli (Pd), Niccolò Guicciardini (Pd), Roberto Renai (Sel) and Antonio Giudilli (Idv) for ask the president and the council to activate a listening and discussion table to establish the criteria for the establishment, modification and management of the fauna protection areas. The agenda was approved with the votes against of the directors Donatella Santinelli and Marco Andre -assi (Pdl); Giovanni Di Stasio (Federated Tuscany) and Massimo Mori and Francesco Michelotti (Brothers of Italy). The three amendments to the Plan. During the session, the president of the Agriculture Commission, Mauro Bianchi (Pd) presented three amendments to the Plan. The first, on the size of the AAVs, was approved; the second amendment, again on the subject of hunting companies, was rejected, while the third amendment, on the management of wild boar in the designated area, was unanimously approved.
The discussion in the council on the 2012 - 2015 Hunting Wildlife Plan. During the debate Massimo Mori and Lorenzo Rosso (Brothers of Italy - National Center Right) expressed their strong opposition to the Wildlife Hunting Plan. “If a synthesis is not found - said Mori - between the positions of the hunting, agricultural and environmental world, it will not come out. This plan makes everyone unhappy: hunters and farmers. It was built on literature and not on a real relationship with the subjects of the territory ”. Of the same opinion was Lorenzo Rosso, who underlined how bankruptcy the policy of the Province of Siena on hunting wildlife management has been. Giovanni Di Stasio (Federated Tuscany) intervened to motivate the vote against. "This plan - Di Stasio said - should be withdrawn and brought back to the Commission to try to amend it quickly and make it a more serious and shared text".
The session continued with the intervention of Donatella Santinelli (Pdl) who underlined the difficulty of putting all the subjects in agreement, but at the same time highlighted how much the Plan lacks courage. “The Plan - Santinelli said - has arrived in the Commission already worked out. We understand the context of uncertainty and the unsatisfactory regulatory framework, but it is a Plan that remains highly fragile and the presentation of the Agenda demonstrates this. Finding a functional synthesis for solving problems on this issue is very important, I regret that we have not succeeded. The solutions are not there and I am very sorry about them. The problems are posed, but not the solutions and for this reason we will vote against ”.
Niccolò Guicciardini (Pd), Roberto Renai (Sel) and Simone Bezzini (Pd) intervened in support of the Hunting Wildlife Plan. “The Plan - said Bezzini - represents the best synthesis within the limits given, in a context of regulatory uncertainty and is particularly complex and articulated on many levels and subjects. The regulatory framework is now worn out, backward, paralyzing. We denounced this a year ago to the Region and the Government, but nothing has changed. There is a need for simplification ”.
Territorial Provincial Coordination Plan. The provincial council approved the variant to the Ptcp for the identification of the Environmental Protection Zones of the mineral, spring and thermal water resource with 14 votes in favor and 5 against by the directors of the PDL Donatella Santinelli and Marco Andreassi; by the councilor of Federated Tuscany, Giovanni Di Stasio and the councilors of the Brothers of Italy Massimo Mori and Francesco Michelotti.
The points postponed to the next session of the provincial council. The provincial council then decided to postpone the following to the next meeting: the questioning of Giovanni Di Stasio (Federated Tuscany) on the Terme di Petriolo; the motion of the councilors Marco Nasorri, Niccolò Guicciardini and Laura Mannucci (Pd), Antonio Giudilli (Di Pietro-Idv), Roberto Renai (Sel) on the reduction of the attendance fee of the provincial councilors; the motion of the councilors Giovanni Di Stasio (Federated Tuscany) and Donatella Santinelli (Pdl) for the optimization of costs and the recovery of unnecessary and burdensome costs of the Province and the agenda of the Environment Commission of the Province of Siena for the modification of the LR 22 May 1999 n. 16 “Collection and trade of spontaneous epigean mushrooms”.
July 31 2013
Province of Siena