Hunting: Varese, the provincial councilor Bruno Specchiarelli replies to Federcaccia's criticisms regarding the new Wildlife Hunting Plan.
In recent days, the Provincial Council of Varese rejected the new Wildlife Hunting Plan strongly criticized by the Hunting Associations including the Federcaccia; now the provincial councilor Bruno Specchiarelli replies to the criticisms made by Federcaccia: "The observations made by Federcaccia towards the Province of Varese start from incorrect assumptions and in particular do not identify the right competent subjects".
Below is the text of the letter from the commissioner Specchiarelli:
“With regard to what was declared to the press regarding the approval of the Wildlife Hunting Plan by Mr. Luigi Roi, president of Federcaccia in Varese, I would like to underline some issues. In substance, the observations made by Roi towards the Province of Varese start from incorrect assumptions and in particular do not identify the right competent subjects.
Let me explain.
The strong urbanization of the provincial territory and the presence of such an extensive road network in the southern area of Varesotto did not depend and does not depend on the Province of Varese. The question of the Parks, raised by Roi, is even more wrong because the competent subjects are the Green Systems and Landscape Directorate of the Lombardy Region and the various Park Management Consortia which, at the time, in the definition of the internal borders established the territory to be allocated to a Natural Park (in which hunting is prohibited) and that to be allocated to a Regional Park in which the hunting activity is regulated and managed by the Province.
Now, it is unfortunate to see how Roi is relentless on this point, attributing to the Province of Varese the unwillingness to want a reduction of the Natural Parks in the context of the Wildlife Hunting Plan, which, however, we reiterate it is not a suitable tool nor can decide on the boundaries of the Natural Parks, forgetting for example that with regard to the Campo dei Fiori Park, when it was time to decide the boundaries between the Natural and Regional Park, Roi himself did not express any contrary opinion despite being within the bodies of the Park Consortium Field of flowers.
The Province has tried with this Wildlife Hunting Plan to take into consideration the needs of hunters, so much so that it has limited the protection areas dependent on itself to the indispensable, agreed with the Management Committees of the Territorial Hunting Areas (ATC), and arranging the union of ATCs 2 and 3 in a single plain ATC to guarantee the hunters residing there a greater possibility of movement and therefore of huntable territory.
It is regrettable once again to see how Mr. Roi's position is based on sterile controversies rather than seeking a collaboration on a serious political and technical basis with which it could build a better hunting activity for hunters in the province of Varese ”.
Bruno Specchiarelli
Provincial Councilor for Agriculture, Wildlife Management
(December 22, 2012)