Hunting firm and at the stake, ten thousand hunters who have been waiting for a month the opening of the season, a hunting calendar rejected several times. This is the difficult context in which the Abruzzo hunting sector and which was the subject of a press conference by the directors Dino Pepe and Antonio Blasioli, this morning at Palazzo dell'Emiciclo. “The Councilor Imprudent brought the first draft of this important planning document to the Advisory Commission only in August, that is very late compared to the date set by law on June 15 - said Pepe - The proposal, once observed by the Council, was first rejected by theISPRA, then by the VIA Committee and finally by the Abruzzo Regional Administrative Court.
This first stop to the hunt by the Regional Administrative Court has, in fact, jeopardized the entire dog training period and canceled the planned pre-opening at the first huntable species. The second proposal, drawn up by the Region in a hurry and without due consultation with the Regional Technical Council, was stopped by the VIA, then by the ISPRA and finally by the TAR, which declared the new proposal for the Hunting Calendar inadmissible. At the base of the failures - explains the director of the Democratic Party - there is above all the lack of wildlife planning which would allow the deviation from the hunting periods for the individual species recommended in the same opinions, a deficiency that the previous center-left Regional Council had filled by drafting and approving, after twenty-five years of inertia, the new Regional Hunting Wildlife Plan.
It therefore vanishes for the 10 thousand Abruzzo hunters who had to pay well in advance all government, regional and ATC concession fees, including the second hypothesis of opening on 15 September, with a heavy reduction in hunting days compared to the rest of the country. " According to the former councilor Dino Pepe "What happened reflects a bit the paradox that we live today in our country, with an arrogant and populist right that even when it administers it carries out proposals, sometimes overriding laws and rules or advocating widespread dissent, with the full knowledge that these are unrealizable battles. Marsilio and his Councilor Emanuele Imprudente, despite the electoral promises regarding hunting, have not been able to guarantee even the minimum wage for Abruzzo hunters, given that the Hunting Framework law provides for general opening on the third Sunday of September, or on the date of September 15, 2019, while in Abruzzo to date we do not yet know when this will happen ".