The Italian Hunting becomes the subject of a research by the Italian students of the University of Oxford; in particular the attention of the project starts from Sicily to focus on the Brescia area as the last cradle of the Italian hunting tradition.
The union between the Northern League and hunting on the one hand and the particular bond that has been created between the adherents of the Northern League and the followers of Diana on the other have become material for a research project at the University of Oxford. A project directed by Professor Paul Jepson of the School of Geography entrusted to some Italian students who are in England for a master and who have been entrusted with the task of collecting data and information throughout Italy. An intent that prompted young Italian researchers to favor the Brescia area, considered the cradle of a traditional activity such as hunting. To get the news, the students sent by the English university met Marco Bassolini, national head of hunting for the Northern League, and Luca Mostarda, spokesman for the provincial hunting council. “It was an occasion that made us very happy - commented the two exponents of the Northern League from Brescia. - In this way, an authoritative confirmation from abroad (and moreover from a reality of absolute prestige like Oxford) of the very particular attention that our movement dedicates to hunting, an activity that represents for our territory a consolidated tradition and a profound passion, but also an instrument that carries on an important economic activity. It is for all these reasons and for the same conviction that animates us, given that we ourselves are hunters, that the Northern League has always tried to support this discipline that has to deal (far from easy) with increasingly heavy attacks from those forces that a priori are firmly against this great passion of ours ”.
The journey through Italy of the Oxford students, which started from Sicily and ended in Brescia, signaled an "anomaly" that the Northern League has been highlighting for some time. "The strong conflict that has arisen between the environmentalist movement and the hunting one - agree Bassolini and Mostarda - has ended up restricting hunting and its fans, who are very numerous in our part of the world, within increasingly narrow stakes. . Rules that heavily limit this activity and that do nothing but create difficulties for those who love to go hunting, perhaps even just to spend a few pleasant hours in the company of friends in the midst of nature. There are several issues that testify to this literally vexatious attitude, just think of everything that, precisely in our territory, involved the so-called hunting in derogation or how an issue is painted that in reality has nothing to do with hunting as poaching.
In all this context, the Northern League has always wanted to offer its support and share the path of hunters, in the belief that hunting is a consolidated tradition in our territory, but also represents a precious inducement for the economy. In both cases a precious asset that must be protected and certainly not lost ". Observations that found correspondence in the work of the Oxford students, who decided to come to the province to receive information, convinced that "in Brescia the situation is particularly emphasized by the fact that there is a strong tradition linked to hunting small birds and that, unlike other areas, hunting is still a very widespread practice and equally significant from an economic and productive point of view ".
Marco Bassolini from Brescia was proclaimed national head of hunting for the Northern League and, at a more strictly provincial level, one of the first gestures after the renewal of the provincial secretariat was to reconfirm the hunting consultation and meet its exponents. These are also the signs of a union rooted in time and in the territory that has crossed national borders and reached an observation point like that of the University of Oxford.
2th November 2013
Source: L'Eco delle Valli
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