The meeting of the regional wildlife committee was held on June 21st, which hesitated the hunting calendar in this first phase. After the opinion of Ispra, the final decision of the committee will follow. Preliminarily we would like to underline that the three most representative associations of Sardinian hunters worked together and on the same front in the real battle that was unleashed especially in the morning part of the meeting. At that stage we immediately voted against the pre-opening of the wood pigeon proposed together with turtledove, crow and jay. Unfortunately, yesterday morning three members of the regional wildlife committee were absent.
We will try again as soon as possible, also because we have shown with determination and studies in hand, that that species has no problem and enjoys excellent health and presence throughout the country and that for this reason it is hunted in pre-opening by many regions. Italian. We strongly asked to foresee the general opening on September 15th as per law but even in that case we went under the count. The date of 22 September was obtained, general opening on Sunday and immediately also on Thursday until 30 January. The heated discussion was unleashed when deciding on the noble sedentary.
We discussed a proposal aimed at finding a solution to the problem, asking the ISSPRA (this will be done immediately by the regional councilor) to share a path started in recent years, which has seen an increase in the censuses carried out, which allows for this year to proceed with the punctual hunting sampling on the basis of what will emerge from the summer censuses. The full days of 6 and 20 October have been foreseen in order to have the time to process the census data and subsequently the data of the slaughter after the first day. We cannot, with great regret, fail to underline the absolute hostility, not only of the representatives of environmental associations, but also and above all of the representatives of the Provinces, managers who, in almost all cases, voted against the councilor's proposals, expressing personal opinions without supporting scientific data!
The said representatives did not intend to grant any opening to our request for greater collaboration, incessantly asking that the hunt for the noble remain closed. We noted, by filing a report by the technician Dr. Fabio Secci whom we thank, the absolute inconsistency of predicting the minimum density of the Sardinian hare, parameters used for the European hare. Parameters needless to say that would exclude the possible collection, in many areas surveyed, which instead have a good density of Sardinian hare. Thanks to the studies in our possession (we thank Dr. Michele Sorrenti for the scientific technical support) we have obtained the reintroduction of three species of anatidae that had been closed for years (codon, pochard and garganey) and the slippage of the closure of the woodcock to January 26 .
For the rest, the forecast for wild boar and for the days in February have remained unchanged compared to previous years. An applause goes to the representatives of the farmers' associations who have shared with us a position we believe to be of great seriousness and balance, showing everyone a clear common front on the part of those who live there daily for work or frequent it regularly for passion. We would like to sincerely thank the councilor Gianni Lampis for the work of great attention and useful mediation, carried out with skill and intelligence within the committee, in the role of President. Now an important challenge awaits him to be played in Rome with Ispra, in order to reach a shared path with the same institute that protects the calendar from absolutely contrary opinions and the consequent appeals. We conclude by hoping that the regional policy (Giunta and Council) will initiate a constructive confrontation (positively initiated with the Councilor) with the hunting associations as soon as possible, in order to take those decisions that can no longer be postponed with respect to a regulatory framework that sees us constantly exposed. attack by the usual suspects (Federcaccia Sardegna - CPA - UCS).