Starling hunting in Puglia, Arci's considerations Hunting on the lack of monitoring of migrants by some provinces.
The Arci Caccia della Puglia proposed to the Councilor Giovanni Epifani the issue of the failure to monitor migratory flows by some Provinces. The PD Regional Councilor Giovanni Epifani took up the request and asked the councilor for agriculture of Puglia, Fabrizio Nardoni, about the problem created in the countryside by the transfer. In the interpellation, the Councilor asks the Region to withdraw funding from those Provinces that have benefited from it without, however, complying with the obligation to monitor migratory flows. According to the councilor Epifani it should be the Region itself to proceed with the observation activity in the presence of non-compliance of the Provinces. As denounced by the Councilor, "the Region has granted funding to the Provinces to start monitoring the migration of birds during the hunting season", but the commitment was almost everywhere disregarded.
Without these censuses it is not possible to start the technical consultancy of the experts of the University of Bari to draw up valid supporting documentation to be brought to national and European tables to open the question of the "transfer" to be reintroduced in the species subject to hunting. Without monitoring and consequent technical evaluations, there is a lack of scientific elements to obtain from the Government the reintegration of the species, among those that can be hunted. In fact, the bird, with Directive 79/409 / EEC, was included among the protected species because it was then considered in danger of extinction.
The excessive and uncontrolled proliferation of the species, which feeds on large quantities of different crops, especially olives, is creating significant damage to Apulian farmers and olive growers, already penalized by Xylella fastidiosa today.
ARCI HUNTING Regional Committee
(April 16, 2015)