The maintenance of the rock partridge hunting in Lombardia. The Hunting Office of the Region would have sent an urgent request to the Lombard Alpine Districts to redo the Partridge Management Districts within 5 days because those sent to Ispra for an opinion were rejected by the same body. It is good to keep in mind that without the Districts, according to the provisions of the National Management Plan of this galliforme, already approved for some years in Rome at the State Regions Conference, you cannot go hunting for rock partridges! The Region asked the Districts to reformulate the Districts according to the regional guidelines and if the new formulations do not arrive on time, the districts will be formulated by the regional offices.
All in a very short time. We remind those who read that the Regional Guidelines were approved last December by the Regional Government after the Offices of the Agriculture Directorate worked on this project for at least two years! The problem of the construction of the Districts arose above all from their expected size supra-district, that is, straddling several districts and also on the identification of suitable and non-suitable areas. The Districts have had plans delivered, but we have already talked about them, in which areas where rock partridges have never been registered and considered unsuitable were considered suitable areas traditionally hosting broods of this galliforme.
In short, a tremendous mess, the result, in our view, of the lack of communication between the Districts, wildlife technicians, Territorial Offices and the Milan hunting office. Dozens of meetings have been held and this is the result. Federcaccia today is not interested in identifying the culprit, whether one or more than one, of this massacre, of this glaring example of mismanagement. We are interested in hunting the rock partridge, given that censuses have been made which concretely demonstrate, as it must be when managing with a capital "G", that the rock partridges are there and can be taken in predetermined numbers.
And we use the same terms as the Hunting Office of DG Agriculture: we give 7 days to find a solution, that is by Wednesday XNUMXst September otherwise we will begin to reconstruct the whole affair and identify those responsible, both in the public administration and in the districts, obviously informing our attentive readers. In fact, the whole story is incredible, let's try to summarize it. Guidelines are drawn up that provide for the establishment of Partridge Management Districts and without them there is no hunting.
It is discussed with those who have to apply them, the Competitors with their technicians, in more than one meeting and decisions are made, we imagine, because otherwise what is the use of meeting? The Districts are created by the Districts, are sent to the Territorial Offices, the former Hunting Offices of the Provinces, are evaluated by the technicians, from which they are then sent to Milan. At the Pirellone the Districts are further assessed for their congruity with the Guidelines and finally sent to Ispra, which responds with a rejection. Here, 7 days remain to find a solution (Source: FIDC Brescia).