Sorry that one environmental association who carries out important and even shareable campaigns every day against the real dangers to the environment in which we all live, and who sits at the tables in charge of Committee and Regional Council to define hunting policies, has within it a soul ideologically aligned against a sustainable and highly regulated activity as it is hunting in our country.
Making use of slogans and statements of certain emotional impact but without scientific and numerical confirmation and not contextualized to the local reality, is certainly an excellent propaganda idea that affects the sensitivity of citizens who they know nature above all by watching it on television or from the car window, but it has little to do with the Valle d'Aosta wildlife and with those who live and follow it. Hare and ptarmigan, only in this we agree with them, are precious species and to be protected, but this does not prevent the very prudent collection of a few dozen specimens granted on the basis of local and national scientific opinions on a territory of 300 thousand hectares that it will be possible to pursue this result.
The trends of these populations in our region thanks to the meticulous monitoring and counting work that the Valdostano Forestry Corps carried out with the help of hunters show stable or even slightly increasing presences, a sign that despite everything - and by all we mean increasing anthropization, pollution, disturbance caused by all the visitors of our mountains, disappearance of areas due to human activity, climate change - hare and ptarmigan are in overall good health. It is on these factors and not on emotional impulses without a scientific basis that our Region authorizes the removal of very few items.
Withdrawals (insiders know) that they are also used for research, genetic samplings that allow, in addition to spring and summer counts and monitoring, to have essential data for their management and that if there were not those very few hunters left to practice this difficult form of hunting, they would simply not be available, as is almost always the case with the species whose removal is prohibited. As for the friends of the Park, we do not think that the data on the trend of species within the Valle d'Aosta Parks are different from those collected for decades by the Regional Fauna Office thanks to the contribution of the monitoring and counting carried out by us hunters (FIDC Aosta Valley).