Italian Federation of Hunting - ISPRA, acting as a technical body, has provided the Regions with a series of indications on the behavior to be followed following particular and exceptional conditions such as the lack of oxygen in the ponds, the extensive damage caused by the environments crossed by fire, the scarcity of rainfall. It is his duty, without any doubt, to carry out this task and while making observations on the conclusions he reaches that we illustrate in the attached note, it is not to this role that we find objections.
However, we cannot help but ask ISPRA why it limits itself to doing only the last part of what its job should be. Instead of falling back on the final and weakest link in the chain, namely i hunters, all the consequences deriving from a set of managerial criticalities in which he is or should be an active part, why does he not carry out the other part of his mandate, the most important one, that is, give indications to prevent them and if possible solve them?
ISPRA knows very well that it is not hunting that causes, for example, poor oxygenation in the waters of marshy environments, a situation that is often mitigated or avoided precisely in the clear areas open to hunting, but rather the impossibility of intervening with mowing and water regulation in the large areas subject to protection and protection, which largely means abandoned to themselves, according to the questionable belief that nature regulates itself.
It is not the hunters who set the fires - indeed they have shown once again, even in this sad season, to be an essential component in their extinguishing and prevention - but the almost impossibility of managing the woods and natural areas for a whole series of constraints, and prohibitions that turn them into bombs ready to explode at the hands of arsonists.
Where is ISPRA “in the first”? Once it has shown that it has done everything possible, that it has given Regions and citizens all the weapons to tackle these problems, only then could it also ask for further sacrifices. But to think that it is enough to close the hunt before it has carried out its functions 100 percent, with the utmost respect, seems to us only a way of washing one's conscience.
The National President
Massimo Buconi
Rome, 13 September 2021 - FIdC Press Office