La Municipal Federcaccia of Spoleto (province of Perugia) has put on paper some reflections on the withdrawal of the dove gray in pre-opening. The letter with which the Ministry of the Environment he invited Regions and Provinces not to authorize this hunt and left the association nothing short of stunned. The only adjective that comes to mind is precisely this, given that until a few days ago the same Ministry had agreed twenty animals as an annual game bag for each hunter.
The change is not acceptable, also because it occurred during the promulgation of the hunting calendars. The dicastery's proposal is unfounded from a scientific point of view and based solely onemotionality. Federcaccia, on the other hand, is providing the right suggestions to maintain or establish turtle dove hunting in pre-opening, a tradition that has lasted in Umbria for over 20 years. In detail, the species is studied with some national population monitoring programs. The species, in Europe, is divided into three sub populations with as many migratory route lines.
The line that affects Italy is characterized by a general stability of the population in the past 15 years. The levy also insists on the largest population before there is an important part of mortality. The situation of the inclusive period between the 2000 and the 2014 it can be considered stable and hunting management should be considered positively. FIDC Spoleto now expects common sense from the Region, as well as from the neighboring ones with which it is usual to interact.