Caccia: Communication signed by Sen. Roberto Della Seta and Francesco Ferrante.
30.08.2011 - The appointment finds a country beset by other, more urgent concerns, but Italians, despite the extremely difficult crisis of recent weeks, continue to be passionate about the subject. It has been like this for many years, since the environment and the protection of fauna have become priority objects of attention for public opinion.
These antennas, which are particularly sensitive when discussing hunting, are good, for the objective relevance of the question, but they also contain a risk: the risk that the debate will be reduced to a sort of "religious war" between defenders and enemies of hunting " without ifs and buts".
Among those who invoke ancestral traditions - man was a hunter even before becoming a gatherer and then a farmer - sees hunting as a "right", and how many - it must be said: more and more numerous - condemn hunting on an ethical level, considering it a practice now incompatible with the cultural evolution of the human species.
The writer has never taken up a rifle, not even a shotgun, nor does he recognize himself in the "abolitionist" positions of those who would like to prohibit hunting. And while recognizing full legitimacy and interest in these disputes, however, as environmentalists we set ourselves a different priority: regulating hunting by giving substance to the constitutional principle that identifies the wildlife heritage as a superior good that the state has the duty to preserve.
Reconciling hunting activities with the need to protect fauna was the goal of Law 157 of 92: an excellent law that allowed Italy to keep up with EU legislation and remains an indispensable point of reference. This law must be defended by updating some marginal aspects but strictly safeguarding its inspiration.
It must be defended from recurrent attempts to dismantle it, the last of the PDL which in the Senate had proposed an unlikely and harmful deregulation of hunting. And it must also be defended by too many unilateral initiatives of various Regions (not all - it must be said - governed by the center-right ...) which in recent months have launched hunting calendars in violation of the protection rules established by Italy and Europe.
The way forward, for the Democratic Party and the center-left, is the same that twenty years ago led to the launch of the Law157: to support the shared commitment of environmental associations, of the most advanced part of the hunting world, starting with Arci Caccia, of the agricultural associations, for a government of hunting activity that guarantees rigorous wildlife protection, avert any hypothesis of privatization of hunting, avoid new and more serious Italians put in default by the European Union.
Parliamentarians of the Democratic Party