HUNT: In the newspaper dell'Arcicaccia an appeal by the historic leader of the environmentalists to the hearts of hunters.
“The country faces difficult times. Moments in which it will be necessary to mobilize the best energies. To keep society together and relaunch the economy, everyone needs to be committed. And don't leave anyone behind. This Italy also needs the hunting world ”: wrote Ermete Realacci, historical leader of the environmentalists and Green Economy manager of the Democratic Party in an article published by the Arcicaccia newspaper in view of the opening of the new hunting season.
However, according to Ermete Realacci, there is a need for hunting “linked to the conservation of wildlife species, based on the sustainability of the sampling, respectful of the indications of science, rigorous in the application of Italian and European regulations. At the same time "a corporate, quarrelsome hunting world that flexes its muscles, unable to forge alliances, to get in tune with the roles and functions of the quality and multifunctional agricultural enterprise, to acquire and maintain the role of custodians of the territory and its beauty is a hunting world that is preparing to drift ".
In the last decade - underlines Ermete Realacci - on hunting, "demagogic and unattainable proposals have arrived from the center-right in contrast not only with European regulations or with the opinions of farmers and environmentalists, but above all with the common feeling of a large part of Italian citizens with a result that the most short-sighted part of the hunters has often been fomented, perhaps in the hope of obtaining some votes or preferences, risking to produce a clash that today would be anachronistic and devastating for the hunting world. And, I must say, in some regions, even the center left has not given good proof of itself. ”.
For Realacci “if you want to win the square of the heart, you need passion and intelligence. The most agitated ultras rarely produce good results: they often produce serious damage. It is valid in sport as in other fields of human action, in environmentalism as in hunting associations. The fundamental task played by Arcicaccia in recent years has been precisely that of keeping the hunting world in the field, without giving in to extremism or indulging in frustration fouls. "
“I remember that when this clash reached the referendum against hunting - writes Ermete Realacci - two great leaders, Giacomo Rosini and Carlo Fermariello, were able to keep a point of balance. In recent months, driven by the opposition determined by the Orsi bill, a referendum against hunting was once again risked.
My opposition was not so much linked to the fear of quorum, as in the case of nuclear power, but to the concern to take steps backwards: to go back to indicating hunters as one of the main environmental problems of the country, with the consequences that, quorum or non-quorum , there would be.
Everyone can now imagine what would have been the result of a referendum on hunting in the perfect storm produced by the mobilization on water, on the legitimate impediment and above all on nuclear power after the Fukushima accident. If the referendum did not take place much, it is thanks to Arcicaccia and its ability to keep open the dialogue with a large part of the agricultural and environmental world, thanks to a credibility maintained with the consistency and courage of the positions taken ”.
I respect the sensitivity and the choices of those who are opposed, in any case, to the suppression of animal life, even if - Ermete Realacci writes - it is not my point of view. But I know well that in many cases and in many territories, especially those of the smaller municipalities, in the hills or in the mountains, the hunting world is an important part of the life of the community.
Realacci in underlining that "it would take a more united hunting world in keeping balanced positions, an ability that the Unavi had in the best of times" finally launches an appeal to the world of hunting using an African proverb "" if you want to go fast go alone, if you want to go far, go with the others ”.
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- As received from Arcicaccia Nazionale Published -