HUNT: Linked to traditions but attentive to current affairs and political decisions. Company lovers and socially engaged. Attentive users who are aware of the environment and nature, they constitute an economic driving force that creates employment. This is the portrait that emerges from the new AstraRicerche survey commissioned by CNCN and Face Italia.
Brescia, 9 April - After analyzing the relationship between Italians and hunting, highlighting that the majority of them are not opposed to hunting if it is regulated, in this second research CNCN (National Hunting and Nature Committee) and Face Italy (Federcaccia, Liberacaccia, AnuuMigratoristi, Enalcaccia) have turned their attention to how hunters live their passion.
Once again they did so through the work of the sociologist Enrico Finzi of AstraRicerche, who also in this case conducted the most extensive and in-depth investigation ever carried out on the subject in an absolutely transparent way. The portrait of the hunter that stands out is very different from the stereotype usually presented by the majority of the media.
From the research emerges the image of a citizen who lives his love for hunting in a profound way (93% of the interviewees speak of love), but above all towards nature by dedicating himself to outdoor activities in general (82,5 %), engaging in social and voluntary activities in favor of the environment and the community (63% are engaged in various types of environmental activities, 38% are dedicated to preventing and fighting fires and 20% is engaged in civil protection activities).
Hunters have shown that they are attentive and aware users of nature and fauna, putting responsible hunting among their priorities (70%), expressing concern about unregulated and unrestricted hunting activities (61%) and placing the poaching in first place (81%) among the phenomena that damage hunting and hunters.
Another important aspect is the economic weight of hunting: 54% of hunters spend between 2 and 4900 euros in a season, with 12% spending from 5 to 7500 euros and another 12% spending over 7500 euros. , creating jobs for over 45.000 workers in the sector.
Finally, the research highlighted the political weight of hunters, both locally and nationally, with the figure of 43% declaring that they change their electoral choices based on the positions of the various parties on hunting.
“The data collected by Professor Finzi - affirms Alessandro Tamburni, president of CNCN - highlight a positive profile of the hunter, a subject animated by deep passions but no less attentive to environmental and social responsibilities. Often the clichés portray him instead in an obscure way, driven by negative and not peaceful instincts. This survey is important to raise awareness within the hunting sector and to offer more information to the outside ”. “One of the most interesting aspects is the fact that the hunters - says Professor Finzi - have revealed themselves with this survey to be extraordinarily tied to traditions, lovers of company.
Hunting is in fact an activity that is handed down through family, friends and word of mouth and this is an extraordinary fact especially in these times dominated by technological communication ". "With this research - declare the hunting associations gathered in Face Italia - we have taken a further step forward on the road to a necessary greater knowledge of the different perceived profiles inherent in the complex hunting subject, up to now based more on" rumors "than on facts .
A knowledge that serves to be transmitted to us and to society, which we have seen less adverse the more real things it knows about us. The indications collected on this occasion are essential to give concrete answers in harmony with the requests of Italian hunters.
And the fact that the four major hunting associations have decided to do it in a choral way, united under a single coordination, we believe is already a first response to what hunters are asking of us ”.