The Region of Sicily has finally fully acknowledged the ruling of the TAR Catania which had annulled the Pantani Nature Reserve in south-eastern Sicily. The decree of the Territory and Environment Department of 8 September 2015, n. 700 has in fact canceled the decree establishing the Reserve and consequently the Agriculture Department modified the hunting calendar, which reported the reserve itself as still in force.
Both Federcaccia Sicilia and the SOS Pantani association had pointed out this inconsistency since the first draft of the hunting calendar presented at the meeting of the Regional Committee, but incredibly, the response of the Region was that the Act of transposition of the sentence issued in the month was still missing. of March 2015, by the Territory and Environment Department.
Subsequently, both Federcaccia Sicilia and SOS Pantani sent letters, telegrams and reminders to both departments to obtain the acknowledgment of the sentence and consequently the modification of the calendar. Finally the result has arrived and today in the Pantani there is a ban on hunting, but only by virtue of the existence of the Natura2000 SIC and ZPS sites, according to the incredible and anti-European rule, in force only in Sicily, for which hunting in the Sites is prohibited. unless the impact assessment is done.
In reality another question is open regarding the territory of the Pantani located in the municipality of Pachino, since there is the order of the TAR Catania n. 150 of 2007 which had suspended the establishment of the SIC and ZPS, since the necessary agreements between the Region and the Municipality had not been made.