HUNTING - The control room of the hunting world, representing Italian hunters, confirms its commitment to strengthen dialogue with institutions so that activities related to the hunting sector, in particular those relating to containment of wildlife for the protection of agricultural fields, can restart during the current phase 2.
Management interventions on fauna represent an essential element for the protection of the agricultural sector, allowing farmers to carry out their work safely and in the best conditions: hunting, in fact, plays a fundamental role in regulating the balance towards wildlife which, if not controlled, causes extensive damage to agricultural crops.
The hunting system is involved in this context to enhance the synergies already in place with the agricultural world in terms of land management, development and protection, thus helping to ensure sustainable growth for the primary sector and sufficient food supplies for all.
The practice of hunting and related activities, Furthermore, they do not involve risks related to a potential infection from Coronavirus. The health emergency linked to the coronavirus, like what is happening in other sectors, is profoundly marking the social economic and productive fabric that revolves around different economic systems, including that of hunting, with potentially serious consequences on the agricultural sector.
After reaching the peak of the emergency, we entered the phase 2, which we hope will allow small and medium-sized enterprises, which permeates the Italian territory, to resume operations, safeguarding essential production and continuing to guarantee jobs. These also include all the realities that operate in the hunting sector, whose turnover we recall amounts to almost 8 billion euros, or 0,44 of GDP, involving almost 90.000 employees.
Social distancing and the use of masks will become mandatory practices in the exercise of any type of activity in the coming weeks; the hunting world is ready to face this challenge, to restart following all the necessary precautions and making itself the bearer of a great sense of responsibility, that already characterizes this sector and the people who are part of it as demonstrated daily even in these days of full emergency. United we will make it!
Components of the control room of the hunting world:
Federcaccia, National Free Hunting Association, Enalcaccia, Arcicaccia, AnuuMigratoristi, Italcaccia, Ente Producers Game, CNCN (National Nature Hunt Committee).