Quick and effective solutions
We have learned that the TAR of Emilia Romagna has rejected the appeal presented by Libera Caccia regarding the Wood pigeon control plan. We reiterate that the lack of involvement of the Hunting Associations in its drafting remains an irreparable wound with respect to this affair that must not be repeated in the future. It is necessary, however, that as a hunting world we learn to distinguish between hunting and control, otherwise we will always be taken aback by certain choices and in difficulty in reacting. In all places we are eager to claim the need for close collaboration with the agricultural world, well, the agricultural world does not tolerate damage from wood pigeons and asks for rapid and effective solutions.
Effectiveness of the intervention
Our role, if involved, was to suggest the most effective ones. We believe, for example, that any hunter knows that a promiscuous control plan for Pigeons and Woodpigeons is not: the two animals have different habits and a different response in terms of effectiveness of the intervention. Ours, understood as the hunting world, reaction, based on ethics and also on the rule that prevents us from hunting during reproduction periods does not apply to control, which is not hunting, after all for years wild boar have been shot all year round, with full and convinced collaboration from a good part of the hunting world.
ISPRA's negative opinion
We were easy prophets in predicting, in a previous press release, that the praise of “Shooting in nests” would sooner or later find sensitive ears to the problem; in fact, we note the negative opinion of ISPRA on the inclusion of the wood pigeon in pre-opening, precisely linked to the reproductive dynamics of the species. In conclusion, however, not all is lost, hunters are the protagonists of management: they should monitor the real consistency and size of any damage and collaborate with the agricultural world and the institutions, without chasing the “shot” out of season. In a context of this type, we can, and we will, present ourselves to the Region with proposals for improving the plan, reducing the number of animals to be slaughtered and adopting the most effective technical deterrent solutions possible.
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