Confederation of Hunters Toscani, WWF and Tuscan Legambiente: pure propaganda! Unfounded accusations such as "Privatized hunting at discounted prices": bad faith or congenital difficulty in understanding?
The Confederation hunters Toscani criticizes the joint WWF-Legambiente Toscana communiqué about the new “governance” of hunting advanced by the Region through the mouth of Councilor Salvadori is a serious and incomprehensible fact. In fact, the thesis according to which there is an institutional overturning conceived as a gift to the hunting world is completely unfounded; as well as offensive to an entire category of citizens and the Associations that represent them (as well as to the body that made the proposal), this statement clearly shows the total unawareness, on the part of this group, of what the new system of governance of the matter and of the tax system connected to it constitutes the most advanced way to safeguard ATCs as essential safeguards for the defense and strengthening of biodiversity. With the immediate cut from the Region with the Stability Law from the national government (444 million euros) and with the loss of certainty of transfers to local authorities - the Region - with a wise and responsible choice, has built a proposal for new taxation aimed at securing the management areas envisaged by the law and of which the environmental component is an integral part. The decrease in the regional tax is simultaneously offset by the increase in registration fees for ATCs and the nature of private bodies, albeit with publicity functions, allows these management bodies to be directly financed and to guarantee and improve their functionality with the certainty of resources. and the consequent implementation of investments for wildlife and environmental purposes.
How is it possible not to understand the goodness of this approach? Perhaps WWF and LEGAMBIENTE are not interested in making these management bodies work in which, it is good to reiterate, the environmental component - together with the agricultural, hunting and institutional one - represents an essential part? Perhaps WWF and LEGAMBIENTE have forgotten that the financial resources for the management of wildlife originate exclusively from the hunting world? Are they victims of amnesia when they forget that those same resources, coming from the hated hunting world, contribute to financing projects for the defense of non-huntable fauna and from which their own associations benefit to a great extent?
It is also with profound bitterness that we record the decline of Legambiente on the typical fundamentalist positions of the WWF; it is extremely incomprehensible to acknowledge that the outrage of Legambiente takes place with a "delayed outbreak": during the meeting at the "Table Hunting”Of November 5, President Ferruzza, with a calm and dialoguing style, had expressed very different positions from the usually belligerent ones of the WWF representative.
Obviously LEGAMBIENTE Toscana is not in line with the national protocol that that same Association has signed with Arci Caccia, Federcaccia, Anuu and gunsmiths for the sustainable management of the wildlife resource. A real shame to take note that instead of conditioning, LEGAMBIENTE Toscana ended up being conditioned. We really hope that better times will come.
Florence, 24 November 2014
Confederation of Tuscan Hunters
(Federcaccia - Arcicaccia - ANUU)