During the work for the LV National Assembly of ANUU Migratoristi, the head of Traditional Hunts, Andrea Trenti, presented the contents of a report on the defense of roccoli, derogations and traditional hunts necessary for the rural tradition. It is a very particular historical period for our beloved hunting, the typical values of rural living are continually trampled by an animalist ideology, fed by a part of modern society, which would like to impose a new model of life. This situation is very dangerous, thinking about the future that awaits the community: in the midst of a profound economic crisis it is illogical to propose the cessation of activities, a symbol of traditions and economy, treasures that ensure a hundred thousand jobs, so much so that today it is one of the few sectors with a positive induced.
The greatest regret is to note the laxity of the institutions in this cultural degeneration: let's be clear, everyone has the right to express their opinions but if this happens taking into consideration a strange emotional level (with the arrogance of imposing one's belief so much as to want to cancel some typical customs) and without any respect for the habits of the rural territory, considering the objective economic, social and scientific value, then someone is definitely out of the way. It is true that the hunting world has wasted too much time in sterile controversies, it is noted how much some media currently tend to deny the right of reply to the hunter, it is ascertained how much the disinformation coming from the big cities wants to make fun of living in the province, but a ' another thing is certain: there are no alternative ways other than to fight and play everything, only and exclusively for hunting and for our dignity as people!
The time has come to have the courage to dare to regain the truth! Through communication we must make hunting as a whole known, we must regain contact with the population to make us reflect how, without rural traditions, there can be no future in the economic, food, social and environmental fields.; finally, an action aimed at working directly with young people, in schools as well as in other initiatives, is decisive, reminding us that society is open to being informed correctly and the space within which to act is really a lot ...
In this difficult, ambitious and fundamental path, no hunter or hunting manager can afford to consider his own form of hunting better than another: only through the true unity of the hunting world, both numerical and cultural, can we return to be respected also under the legislative profile. In a world often built on appearances and choices of convenience, in a society that is a slave to fashions that prefers to humanize animals because it is no longer able to speak and share values with people, at this very moment we need the courage to defend those hunting traditions that still represent a wealth of values not to be lost and on which to build the future of the younger generations. Every self-respecting hunter has the duty to defend the culture of a population, some secular and rooted activities in the territory cannot be trivialized or worse yet set aside but must be valued like other entities, defending them with gritted teeth and facing a bureaucracy too often far from the will of the people.
This bureaucratic boulder is exasperating, as the case of roccoli and traditional hunts clearly demonstrates: I could go back to writing numerous pages of technical reports on the correct application of art. 9 paragraph 1 letter c) of Directive 2009/147 / EEC, I could rewrite a feasible legal process to be submitted to the various institutional levels, I could reiterate the uselessness of certain agreements made by some institutions with the European technicians of the EU Environment Commission (not having the latter no legislative powers), I could list the numerous excuses of the various politicians for not applying the hunting in derogation, I could strongly reiterate the usefulness of modifying art. 19bis of law 157/92 in the indifference of the national political world or of the opportunity to start the Regional Observatories to have the necessary technical data (considering the guilty inaction of ISPRA) ... In short, I could write a book on exceptions but today it is not It is necessary to reiterate certain issues already known to hunters, but rather to recreate the fighting spirit necessary to defend those traditions that still unite entire generations head on.
Said this, it is essential to submit to the Regions that still intend to sensibly regulate these activities - the withdrawal by derogation and the capture of live decoys - some operational proposals, also offering us, as always, technical and legal support of those regional offices that will want it. The work to be done is in fact weighty, both from the point of view of the correct and exhaustive list of legal references, also with respect to the massive jurisprudence of the Court of Justice that has accumulated over time, and as regards the technical and application bases pursuant to national law and, above all, the requirements of the Birds Directive itself. In this regard, our association would very favorably see mutual coordination between the Italian Regions involved in all or part of this double game - Lombardy, Veneto, Liguria, Emilia-Romagna, Tuscany, Umbria, Marche to mention the main ones - in order to tackle the problems with a united spirit because the cultural motivations and the legal needs underlying these measures are the same from Brescia to Terni.
We are therefore already working to normalize situations that have been dragging on for too many years: it is not easy, as we all know, but we are stimulated by unprecedented challenges., as for example with the new Lombard legislators who took office just in these days, to whom we will advance a series of precise requests / proposals regarding live capture calls and derogations. To this end, for example, why not think of organizing meetings, in the various territorial realities, to put the institutions in contact with the hunting world through moments of confrontation with hunters, arms and production sector, artisans, breeders, food sector, etc. ? Could we not thus concretely underline how much hunting and rural activities are a territorial peculiarity to be valued as an objective resource and certainly not to be fought?
The hunting world presents itself to this challenge with all the credentials. It is of primary importance to optimize the social, environmental and economic advantages of hunting through communication, it is equally important to invest in the field of science to help ars venandi to objectively reaffirm the validity and sustainability of the claims. In the coming days, as I mentioned, the ANUUMigratoristi will be called to speak with the regional and national political subjects on the subject of derogations and catches. Making promises today on the final result would not make sense, but once again every manager will give their best to build a regulatory measure to recover respect for traditional hunts and if some zealous politician throws our work into the trash, the next day we will be still in the front row to claim our requests, with the same tenacity as always!
The hunters have now crossed the limit of patience. If the Institutions and even some hunting managers think that the subject of derogations and traditional hunts are an uncomfortable matter condemned to near extinction, they will soon realize how we are motivated to fight to keep alive these customs fully legitimate under cultural profiles, economic and scientific, an emblem of our land of which we are proud.
Andrew Trent
26 March 2013
ANUU Migrators
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