Hunting: Veneto, Veneto Regional Council adopts the new 2014-2019 Wildlife Hunting Plan; Stival, “modern setting in balance between hunting and environmental protection”.
The Regional Council, in its session yesterday on the proposal of the Councilor for Hunting Daniele Stival, adopted the new 2014-2019 Wildlife Hunting Plan, transmitting it to the Regional Council for the continuation of the process. “After a long and meticulous process of elaboration and comparison at 360 degrees, which produced 703 observations - underlines Stival with satisfaction - a modern and balanced plan has emerged, capable of looking beyond the five-year validity. A document in which we have balanced the needs of hunters and their sacrosanct right to exercise a passion that is in the identity tradition of Veneto, and those of the protection of the environment and fauna ”. “Not to mention the important economic driving force that the hunting produces with its vast commercial induced for the whole Veneto. Among other things, this plan is among the first at national level to be approved on the basis of the new strict European directives. Now everything is in the hands of the colleagues of the Regional Council - adds Stival - with the hope that the Plan can become law as soon as possible, to support the entire regional hunting activity ”.
The Plan, made up of numerous technical annexes, indicates a significant series of strategic objectives:
1) Achieve the conservation and protection objectives of fauna and habitats set by the Community Directives on the basis of a rational planning of the territory and natural resources;
2) Enhance the management and hunting activities and the regional hunting traditions linked to the territorial and faunal peculiarities;
3) Obtain a measurable improvement in the self-sufficiency parameters of the production of huntable game and a reduction in the quotas of game "imported" from other territories;
4) To manage the natural return of large carnivores to the Alps through coordination at intra and extra regional level;
5) Bring the phenomenon of damage caused by wildlife back to agricultural activities at levels of economic sustainability and tolerability, favoring prevention activities;
6) Contain the expansion, tending to the elimination, of species extraneous to the regional faunal landscape, in particular if their presence is in conflict with anthropic activities and with the protection of native species, with particular reference to boar and nutria;
7) Enhance hunting as an instrument of equilibrium in the management of ungulates to favor qualitative improvement and numerical balance between the different age groups;
8) Promote an improvement in qualitative and quantitative terms of the level of knowledge of the regional faunal components, of the parameters relating to hunting and all activities related to wildlife management;
9) Mitigate the levels of "conflict" and "negative perception" with respect to hunting by public opinion and the agricultural world, paying attention to the recognition of private property and to economic and socio-cultural activities in the agro-forestry-pastoral field that show critical levels of compatibility with hunting activity;
10) Promote more synergy in the objectives and greater coordination of the choices between the private management of hunting (in the wildlife-hunting and agro-tourism-hunting companies) and the programmed management (in the Territorial Areas of Hunting - ATC).
(28 August 2014)
Veneto region