Wild boar hunting, Province urges the Region: "Suppress contiguous areas"
Genoa. The Province is united in favor of more permissive measures on hunting wild boars, to limit the presence on the territory of these large ungulates that cause extensive damage to agricultural crops: with an almost unanimous vote (the only contrary being the Spanò green) the council has in fact committed the President and the Council to take action at the Liguria Region so that this re-perimeter the natural parks or alternatively suppress the so-called contiguous areas, where today, according to the national law 394/91, hunting is allowed only to residents.
With this stance, the council intends to urge the Region to find a solution that allows the formation of adequate hunting teams, capable of effectively countering the presence of wild boars. Today, applying
the national law, in many areas of the province of Genoa this is impossible: for example the municipalities whose territory falls within the Aveto Park (Ne, Borzonasca, Mezzanego, Rezzoaglio, Santo Stefano d'Aveto) are so small that among the only residents it is not possible to find a sufficient number of hunters to form a team for the wild boar hunt.
The motion passed almost unanimously by the council had already been presented on 1 December by the councilors Muzio, Tassi and Collorado (the first two of the PDL, the third of the UDC, all also hold the office of Mayor in inland municipalities,
respectively Casarza Ligure, Avegno and Castiglione Chiavarese, where the problem of wild boars is very much felt by the residents) and was born from the urgency to give an answer to the problems caused by a sentence of the Constitutional Court, the n. 315 of 11 November 2010: this had in fact accepted the request of a group of Ligurian environmentalists, who argued that the regional hunting law of 1994, which in consideration of the demographic situation of the Ligurian hinterland precisely allows hunting activities in the contiguous areas also to non-residents, were in contrast with the national framework law on protected areas, precisely 394/91, which prohibits such activity.
However, the motion of the three provincial councilors had been withdrawn even before reaching the discussion in the council, because in the meantime the urgent response of the Region that it requested had been given: already on 7 December 2010 in fact, less than a month after the sentence of the Council , the legislative assembly of via Fieschi had approved with an "urgent measure" the law 21/2010, which suppressed the contiguous areas, keeping within their perimeter all the pre-existing environmental protection regulations except the limits on hunting activity, and thus reintroducing the possibility of hunting non-residents.
But the Council of Ministers of January 28, 2011 overturned the picture once again, challenging the regional law 21/2010, again because it was in contrast with the national framework law on protected areas of 1991. This is why the motion with councilor Muzio as first signatory is returned to the council, where it was approved with a broad consensus, expressed in the vote and announced by the interventions of many councilors: in addition to those of the three signatories, also those of Giuseppe Nobile (Federation of the Left, also deputy mayor of Né), Giacomo Repetto ( Pd, di Campomorone) and Mario Maggi (Pdl), who all underlined, as well as the commissioner Piero Fossati, the need to limit the presence of ungulates to defend the territory and safeguard the few agricultural activities that still exist in the hinterland . The only one to vote against was precisely the green Angelo Spanò, who also verbally raised a problem of non-admissibility of the motion presented, as this would involve a commitment to spend for the Province.
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