La law on hunting in the Aosta Valley it was ready to be modified with a text that seemed to have made everyone agree. As reported by The printHowever, everything has been blocked and the region is about to take a step back. What exactly happened? Until recently the only disagreements were the hunters who are part of the Fourth Aosta Valley District, the one that includes the Mount Emilius to be precise, so much so that the representatives resigned before the law was examined by the Executive. In the northern region there are seven other hunting districts, according to which there could be the resignation of the whole Hunting Management Committee, also because the divisions concern many aspects.
In particular, no agreement was reached on deer, chamois and roe deer to be killed and their actual distribution. In practice, the aforementioned Fourth Circumscription has raised its voice over the years for complain about the fewest number of ungulates available. The modified text spoke precisely of compensation, specifically a lower payment by hunters who have fewer animals to shoot. The choice made us turn up our noses and from that moment problems arose. The same Committee thought of the changes to be introduced into the law together with the hunters' districts, the State Forestry Corps and the Regional Agriculture Department.
The idyll lasted as long as Augustus Rollandin, governor of the Aosta Valley, decided to introduce the principle of fairness, motivating the step backwards with the only recognized will of the hunter, that of hunting. The other constituencies immediately protested, pointing out how the regional administration is threatened by hunters who are in the minority (the Fourth Circumscription includes 200 people out of a total of 1300), without forgetting that compensation does not exist in any other European country, where the management of the wildlife heritage.
The other constituencies are also worried that it can losing the historical link between hunters and territory, the one that has guaranteed the flattering results of recent times. Among other things, the complaint is motivated by the fact that when there was the compensation system, to avoid giving away the culled items, the censuses were manipulated downwards. The representatives expressed all their doubts in a signed document. It should be remembered that the eight Valle d'Aosta hunting districts they are made up of a president, a vice president, a secretary and a series of councilors (two for each municipality).