In a note beaten by the Agi news agency it seems that the M5S senators of the Agriculture Commission in the Senate have wondered the reason for the request for the "shifting of proxies on hunting from the Ministry of the Environment to that of Agriculture" since the Italian agriculture has - they are always in their own words - "very different needs and requirements" and that being "the management and protection of all species of wildlife entrusted to the Regions and not to the ministries mentioned above" they do not understand the "insistence on wanting to shift attention to such a sensitive and important issue as that of hunting when the country, farmers and all those involved in the sector need something else ".
Perhaps it would help them to understand the realization and yes, without a doubt Italian agriculture needs a lot of things, for example more attention. A few days ago the CIA denounced, but it is not the only one, of the absence from the Italian political debate of community issues, starting from new common agricultural policy.
It seems strange to us that precisely in the Agriculture Commission it is ignored that it is precisely the farmers and their organizations, who see their work go up in smoke every day due to numerically out of control species such as ungulates - in particular the wild boar -, starlings and pigeons. or allochthonous like the otters, which look with hope to a role in the hunting world as a coadjutor of a ridiculous number of public personnel precisely to limit damage at no cost to the community. Aid made more and more difficult and in some cases impossible by an outdated legislation that is clearly no longer in step with the changed Italian environmental wildlife situation.
On this Federcaccia, alone and together with the other associations of the control room, has urged the legislator several times and will continue to work to ensure that this issue is kept on the agenda of the cabin until it is resolved with the contribution of all. And if all this with his delegations - not new, but provided for by the legislation and no longer applied for years, in a disinterest that led him to abdicate against the Ministry of the Environment - the Ministry of the Environment should not deal with them. Agriculture, who should do it? So, if the protection and management of wild species are the responsibility of the Regions, why would the Ministry of the Environment and the Government at its request take an interest in preventing them from legislating freely?
It's nice that the 5-star senators realize now that hunting is a "sensitive and important" issue, but for this reason it should not be put aside, hoping the problems will resolve themselves or stop existing just because they are not in the Government contract .
Hunting Federation has always had the utmost respect for the role of parties and movements, but coming from these considerations from representatives of a government force, convinced that governing also means solving problems, we do not expect an approach based on ideology and preconception, but rather a research convinced of practical and effective solutions.
Rome, 20 May 2019 - Press office of the Italian Hunting Federation