From the Eco di Bergamo on Saturday 3 April on page 33 we learn that the Administrations of the Municipalities of Albino and of Pradalunga are ready to reduce the buffer zone envisaged by the respective Territory Government Plans which, today, imposes severe constraints on private activities up to 1000 meters away from the boundaries of the Site of Community Interest Valpredina. We also learn that according to the director of the Reserve, Enzo Mauri (WWF), it would be an action induced by the hunting world "Which pushes the Municipalities to positions contrary to the protection of the territory". Taking note of the fact that hunting is always involved for the Director of the Reserve, we can only reject any allegation.
First of all, because for hunters the protection of the territory is of primary interest: hunting takes place in nature and not in parking lots, on non-urbanized territory. And indeed a renovated ruin means the introduction by law of an area of over 3 hectares, a ban on hunting around it, as well as further hunting prohibitions. Secondly, as the changes proposed by the municipalities have nothing to do with hunting: the hunting activity around the site is and remains limited to a band of one thousand meters according to the provisions of the Provincial Wildlife Plan of Bergamo, and nothing c 'enter the building and urban planning regulations of municipal competence. However, we believe that the owners of the farmhouses have the right to be able to renovate them, to be able to live and make them live, and perhaps to be able to bring the animals to pasture, to be able to make wood in their woods and to be able to carry out all those rural activities that over the centuries have created the typical habitat of the Bergamo Pre-Alps, which was certainly not made of impenetrable thickets hospitable only for wild boars.
Rather it should make us reflect that the two Municipalities, despite being politically on opposite positions (Albino led by Lega-Centro Destra, Pradalunga led by Center-left), are on the same position regarding the need, in the interest of their citizens, to review the prescriptions of their own PGT reducing the range within which each private activity and each municipal authorization is subject to an Incidence Assessment by theSite Managing Body. Pacific then that we hunters too would like to review the constraints that limit our activity in those areas, and above all those that limit the renewal of the authorizations of the already existing fixed hunting stalks (true characteristic elements of the Lombard rural landscape and of great importance also from the point of view of biodiversity), and obviously we will undertake to do so before the competent bodies.