Hunting: Sardinia, the hunting calendar valid for the 2013-2014 season has just been approved but the controversy has already broken out, the environmentalists announce a battle of appeals.
Hunting and controversy. After the green light from the regional wildlife committee for the 2013/2014 Hunting Calendar, the environmentalists prepare the "artillery" and announce a legal battle. The Legal Intervention Group replies point by point the criteria used. The controversies are repeated on time as every year. And so also this time the hunting calendar in Sardinia is ideally "shot" by environmental associations that fight for the defense of animals. Once again it is the Legal Intervention Group that raises its voice and promises legal actions: "For a change - writes the association in a note -, as in previous years, this hunting calendar clearly violates the principles and criteria of the Ispra Guide (Higher Institute for Environmental Protection and Research .ndr), drawn up in accordance with the 2009 Community law as an indication of minimum national provisions for the maintenance or restoration of the favorable conservation status of wild species ".
The Grig analyzes several points of the new calendar: "First of all, the necessary precautionary principle is not applied in the absence of faunal censuses and faunal planning acts for the species of the so-called" at risk "permanent noble (Sardinian partridge, Sardinian hare) on the contrary, the daily hunting period is extended with the forecast of the whole hunting day ”. In particular, “with regard to the Sardinian Partridge, Ispra has expressed itself clearly stating that it must be commensurate with the dynamics of the population with the adoption of collection control mechanisms that allow compliance with the planned plan. In the absence of the management elements just mentioned, hunting should not be allowed ".
Furthermore, currently the hunting periods "towards Woodcock, Turdidae, Coot and Anatidae (Mallard, Teal, Codone) fall within the requirements of the well-known" Key Concepts document on Period of Reproduction and prenuptial Migration of huntable bird Species in the EU ", the community guide on the subject, but the intention expressed right now by the Regional Department of Environmental Protection is to reconvene the Regional Wildlife Committee at the end of December 2013 to deliberate its extension until February 2014 ″.
Not only that: to date, no Environmental Impact Assessment has been carried out regarding hunting activities in areas classified as sites of community importance (the so-called Sic) and special protection areas (Zps): Not to mention the persistent absence of the hunter - territory, one of the fundamental points of the regulatory framework on the subject of sustainable hunting ". Therefore, "having ascertained the lack of environmental sensitivity, appropriate legal actions will follow".
July 4 2013
Source: SardegnaOggi