The Sardinian Wildlife Committee launches changes to the hunting calendar taking into account the observations of the Council of State and the controversy breaks out.
The Committee met on 23 morning to make the necessary changes to cancel the order of the Council of State which had suspended hunting on the island, giving reason to the environmental associations Enpa, lav, Legambiente Lipu-Bird Life Italia and WWF which had challenged the island's hunting calendar. Among the changes made yesterday, the closure of the hunt on January 30th with the addition of the early stop on January 8th instead of the 31st of the thrush hunt.
Precisely this last decision, supported by the Department of the Environment, which considerably anticipates not only the closure of the thrush hunting but also the woodcock, the snipe, the cesena and the blackbird, it infuriated the hunters and divided the Faunal Committee itself.
THE PROTESTS Ignazio Artizzu provincial president of Federcaccia immediately protested for that decision: "The decision to bring forward to January 8 the closure of one of the most popular forms of hunting in Sardinia, the thrush, together with other migratory species, is rightly perceived by the 48 thousand Sardinian hunters like yet another outrage and as a kind of declaration of war just at a time when many Italian regions have turned towards a hunt that is more responsive to local needs and traditions in compliance with European directives.
"Sorry to note - continues Artizzu - a hostile attitude to the hunting world which is not matched by any instrument that the regional structures in charge could have put in place in order to guarantee updated and scientifically valid data to be used for the governance of the territory and fauna and to reaffirm the autonomy of our Region ".
ASSOCIATIONS Alessandro Lisini president of Sardacaccia, member of the Fauna Committee, is on the same line: "Even if I agree with the findings of Artizzu, I must underline that the Faunistic Committee was faced with the problem of suspending hunting and he opted for that solution taking into account the findings of the Council of State".
For the regional president of Federcaccia Franco Sciarra "the decision of the Committee by a large majority was taken to render the suspension of the calendar ineffective. If anything, the problem for Sardinia is that Ispra has no data and little is known about the arrivals and departures of migrants ”.
POLITICIANS The regional councilor of the Democratic Party Luigi Lotto in a note had applauded the decision of the State Council: “The suspension of hunting in Sardinia once again demonstrates the total inability of the center-right majority to govern the island. Having wanted to completely ignore the involvement of Ispra and what was proposed by the center left, caused a sensational misstep by the council and damage to the hunters themselves".
The new hunting calendar will be published in Buras almost certainly on December 29th and will be valid from December 30th, the hunting days of 26 and 29 December remain unchanged.
Source: The Sardinian Union