" request for derogation for the catches it is news that makes us very happy and for which we thank Councilor Rolfi, to which also the appreciation for having solved the dog training node, which is added to the other exceptions submitted to ISPRA - comments Lorenzo Bertacchi, President of Federcaccia Lombardy -. The roccoli represent a priceless landscape and cultural heritage and their openness would be fundamental for their conservation. We hope that the request can be realized with a resolution, but a lot will depend on the opinion of ISPRA and the outcome of the case before the Milan Regional Administrative Court on the resolution of 2019, the decision of which should arrive by August ".
"The Lombardy Region has forwarded the request for derogation to the Higher Institute for Environmental Protection and Research for the control of starling, finch and pigeon, as well as the derogation for the capture of song thrush, redwing, cesena and blackbird ". This was announced by the Lombardy regional councilor for Agriculture, Food and Green Systems Fabio Rolfi. The initiative was shared with the Lombard hunting associations. “I intend to give new impetus to the issue to overcome Ispra's known resistance to the granting of exemptions, however also provided for by European legislation. We have provided scientific studies and numbers to support and motivate our request ".
"Also for the next hunting season we want to activate the derogation procedure of the Birds Directive to allow the capture of specimens of the species Tordo bottaccio, Tordo sassello, Cesena and Merlo to be given to hunters as live calls for hunting from stalking, to allow, under strictly controlled and selective conditions, the capture of certain birds in small numbers for a well-defined period of the hunting season, in pre-identified capture facilities in terms of number and territorial location and expressly authorized by the Region, on pre-established quantities of catchable birds for each species, by qualified parties and with methods subject to controls by the competent bodies "added the commissioner.
Permission to capture an adequate number of live decoys may constitute a valid contrast to poaching phenomena also highlighted in the National Action Plan. The "non-standardization" of the breeding of the species belonging to the Turdidae family does not allow to quantify the reproductive performance (number of eggs laid in a season, percentage of hatching, percentage of weaned pullets and post weaning survival rate), making amateur and professional breeding difficult.
I believe that for the umpteenth time the Lombardy Region will certainly be quashed!