La Regional Council of Basilicata approved, on the proposal of the Regional Councilor for Agricultural and Forestry Policies, Francesco Fanelli, the resolution concerning the "Regional addresses of hunting wildlife programming". The provision, essential to proceed with the drafting of the new Regional Hunting Wildlife Plan (Pfvr) illustrates its objectives and methods, differentiating the territory into areas intended for hunting, institutes for the protection and management of hunting.
The policy document, drawn up by the Forests and Territory Protection Office of Department of Agricultural and Forestry Policies, indicates the guidelines for drawing up the Plan, defining the guidelines and parameters to guarantee and promote homogeneity of programming wildlife-hunting management at regional level. The Plan will be a planning tool that will bring changes with respect to the current one dating back to 1997, as, with the Delrio reform, the competences concerning the fish-hunting policies have been transferred from the Provinces to the Regions.
After the approval of the Council resolution, the deed was sent to the third competent Council Commission "Production activities, territory, environment" for the required opinion. The guidelines have been formulated on the basis of current legislation on the subject, the indications provided by the Higher Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (Ispra) and the experience gained following the application of the previous regional plan. Among the priority objectives conservation and protection of fauna and habitats, the reduction of game brought into the territory from breeding; the management of wild boars in order to reach a density and territorial distribution of the population compatible with anthropic activities.
The steering document is divided into three parts: the first based on the cognitive analysis of the territory (with data relating to the territorial characterization, the hunting activity, the existing faunal institutes, the damage caused by wild boars to agricultural crops and car accidents as well as to the livestock); the second relates to strategies and the third to wildlife planning and management. Specifically, it dictates the guidelines for: the definition of the agro-forestry-pastoral territory on which to define the territorial areas of hunting, the management of wildlife institutes, the monitoring of fauna, for environmental improvements, the management of wildlife, etc.
The Pfvr, lasting five years, must be divided into homogeneous areas and aimed at identifying institutes and areas intended for the protection of wildlife, ensuring the destination of a share of the 30 percent of the agro-forestry-pastoral territory, in particular to protection oases, intended for shelter, reproduction and stopping of wildlife; to restocking and capture areas; to protected areas where hunting is prohibited also due to other laws or regulations. “The approval of the guidelines - said the commissioner Fanelli - is the first step for the preparation of the Wildlife Plan, a long-awaited tool that will allow for planning and scheduling all actions relating to wildlife and hunting. Lack of planning has created many problems in wildlife management so far.
This is a provision of fundamental importance for the regional territory - Fanelli explained - a response to all interested parties, from hunters to agricultural entrepreneurs and breeders. Despite the difficult time we are experiencing, we have taken every action to seek, when the health emergency is over and we will return to normal, to be ready and to be able to leave again, having approved a preparatory act that will be used to plan and manage the hunting activities ".