Fifty-year-old engineer, he succeeds the late Giovanni Selvi. “The hunting world offers knowledge and availability, but demands respect from the institutions”. Simone Petturiti is the new president of Umbrian hunting federation. Four months after the loss of the late president Giovanni Selvi, and despite the difficulties related to the pandemic still in progress, on Saturday 6 March Federcaccia Umbra was finally able to elect its new regional president, thus returning to full staff as required by the statute. Born in the 70s, engineer from Città di Castello, Petturiti boasts a long experience as a hunting manager, always in Federcaccia Umbra.
Elected by plebiscite vote in the face of a turnout close to 80% of those entitled, he now has the task of representing, with commitment, study and competence, the demands of the hunting world, interpreting, at the same time, its necessary generational change. “I am honored to receive the burden of guiding Federcaccia Umbra - the first words of the new president - taking up the baton of my illustrious predecessors. Our association, by history and numbers, represents the demands of the entire hunting world, both from a technical and a scientific point of view, now inseparable from the administrative one.
My commitment is to continue to place the association at the service of the institutions for a better performance of the hunting activity, for the benefit of biodiversity and in the interest of all the actors of the environment and of the agro-forestry-pastoral territory, in especially the agricultural world. While not being able to operate fully - continues Petturiti - both due to the covid and the premature death of our late president Selvi, during the last few months the Federation has produced a not indifferent proactive effort, thanks to the work of the office of regional presidency which has drawn up a series of documents and requests, proposed to the competent regional councilor.
Among these, I recall the issues relating to funds for damage from wildlife, the request for an extension of the three-year deadline of fixed stalking, the request for a strong commitment regarding the management of the restocking and capture areas, the essential management plan for the wild boar species. , the courteous request for a meeting to talk about various problems inherent in our world and, finally, the request to overcome the municipal constraints for hunting and management activities.
With the exception of this last event, which was promptly accepted with the relative regional ordinance, regarding everything else we received silence and witnessed some rash initiatives, taken by those who have the institutional task of managing our matter . I remind myself - concludes the new regional president - and to those who intend to understand, that the public administration, today more than ever, needs competence, humility and the ability to listen and dialogue: in the absence of these requirements, the consequences can take on contours even very serious ".