Il National Union of Hunters has decided to rekindle the spotlight on a hunting ban enacted several years ago by hunting calendars for what concerns Sicily. We are talking about the Pantani di Gelsari and Lentini, vast wetlands found along the Ionian coast (bordering between the provinces of Catania and Syracuse). The Syndicate has examined the law that imposes the ban to ensure conservation measures and has found that the hunting ban in question has ceased due to the expiry of the terms within which the nature reserve was to be established.
The same goes for the Regional Wildlife Plan 18 of 2013. The Regional Plan of Parks and Reserves does not provide for i pantani among the natural reserves to be established, consequently the hunting ban is illegitimate, even if it would seem it is not yet possible to go hunting.
The hunting activity is not allowed not due to the provisions of decrees and calendars and hunting, but because the area is part of the list of sites Natura 2000. Among other things, criminal penalties are envisaged for violating the ban, with imprisonment of up to six months as the maximum penalty. Simply put, the situation is quite confusing and under the law, every area of the Sicilian territory in which it is not possible to hunt should be tabulated, even if the absence of tabellation does not legitimize the hunter in any way.