The Province of Bolzano would have made a request to open hunting in the Stelvio National Park.
In fact, referring to the DPR of 1974 "Implementation rules of the special statute for the Trentino-Alto Adige Region in the field of cultural property, hunting and fishing, agriculture and forests of 1974", an attempt is made to expand selective culling in the protected area - also provided for in the national legislation - but it is concluded that «In the natural parks constituted by the province, hunting is permitted and exercised in the manner and conditions provided for by the provincial law. In national parks, regional natural parks and nature reserves, hunting is regulated by provincial law in compliance with the statute of this implementing rule ".
Therefore, a de facto overcoming of the national law 394/91, which prohibits hunting in the Parks, would result in one of the worst risks feared by environmentalists with the "regionalist" stew of the Stelvio National Park: the reintroduction of hunting that would have was part of the agreement between PD and Südtiroler Volkspartei in which the center-right also gladly participated.
The alarm was raised by Franco Pedrotti, author of the book Historical events of the Stelvio National Park and well-known botanist, naturalist and cartographer, who recalls that already «in 1964 the Trentino Alto Adige Region had approved the regional law n. 30 of 7 September 1964, which allowed hunting in more than half of the Trento and Bolzano sectors of the Stelvio National Park, In addition to deer, chamois and roe deer, marmots could even be hunted, and hunting was also allowed to the song of the black grouse and the grouse (SIC!). As an example, in 1968 alone 20 black grouse heads were killed, 5 in the province of Trento and 15 in that of Bolzano. In 1981 the Province of Bolzano adopted a surprising measure: hunting hare, white hare, fox, badger, marten, mountain francolin, cesena, thrush, starling, blackbird and other "minor" species ». The then president of the WWF of Trento, Francesco Borzaga, resorted to the Council of State several times and finally, in 1983, managed to obtain the abolition of hunting in the Stelvio National Park.
According to Pedrotti, "Now we are back to the starting point, the province of Bolzano requested the opening of the hunt in the Commission of 12, in yesterday's session" and the environmentalist points out that "The national law on protected areas prohibits hunting in national, regional and provincial parks. As is known, some forms of hunting are open in the natural parks of the Provinces of Bolzano and Trento; therefore, these parks should not even be included in the official list of Italian protected areas ".
Greenreport.it
13.06.2015