Hunting in Italy has always been a serious problem for those who live, work or travels to the countryside and the woods, often becoming a danger to public safety. In one hunting season 2002/2003 there were hunting accidents that have caused 44 morti, 66 feriti e 5 invalidi permanenti.
Nella stagione venatoria 2003/2004, nel solo periodo settembre/dicembre, ci sono invece stati 42 cacciatori morti, 55 cacciatori feriti, 14 non cacciatori feriti.
Centinaia sono gli articoli dei giornali locali su episodi di spari vicino alle case, danneggiamenti di beni, animali domestici uccisi a fucilate, avvelenamenti da bocconi, danni alle culture agricole, cani da caccia nei giardini e pollai, minacce ed offese.
Molti cacciatori purtroppo, anche grazie all’attuale politica filo venatoria di molte regioni e di molte province, si sentono padroni assoluti elle proprietà altrui.
Per questi motivi nasce questa “guida” informativa con l’intento di help all citizens affected by this long standing problem, to defend their rights and enforce the basic rules of hunting.
1.Distanze houses
Hunting is prohibited for a distance of 100 meters from houses, factories, buildings used in place of lavoro.E 'forbidden to shoot in the same direction by a distance less than 150 meters.
2. Distances from roads and railways
Hunting is prohibited within 50 meters from the roads (including municipal unpaved) and railways. It 'may not shoot toward them from a distance of less than 150 meters.
3. Distances from farm vehicles
Hunting is prohibited within a distance less 100 meters from agricultural machinery in operation.
4. Distances from domestic
Hunting in funds if livestock is allowed only at a distance greater than 100 meters from the herd, the herd or flock.
5. Transport of weapons
can not carry hunting weapons, which are not dead and in custody, within towns and other areas where hunting is prohibited, in a vehicle of any kind and in the days not allowed for the exercise of hunting.
6. Media banned hunting
Nets, traps, snares, mistletoe, and poisoned bait, snares, bows, crossbows, gabbietrappola.
7. Days prohibited
Tuesday and Friday are days of absolute silence, even if hunting holidays.
8. Hunting times
Hunting is permitted from one hour before sunrise until sunset.
9.
hunting season begins the third Sunday in September, closes Jan. 31.
10. Places to ban hunting
Land of snowy plains, frozen lakes and ponds, flooded land, private gardens, public parks, residential areas, areas used for sports, parks and nature reserves, oasis, nursery, public forests.
11. Training of hunting dogs
is' permitted by the third Sunday of August until the second Sunday in September, on Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays from 6 am to 11 am and from 16 to 20 hours, on uncultivated land, forest of old equipment, the stubble on natural pastures and legume, no later than ten days after the last mowing. Training is then allowed in the fields for dog training table.
12. Agricultural crops and hunting with dogs
The Dogs are prohibited on fields planted with rice, soybeans, tobacco and vegetables. The use of dogs is allowed up to two per hunter. The exercise of hunting is banned in the form wandering the orchards, vineyards until the date of harvest, cultivation of rice, soybean and corn seed.
13. Failure to care for hunting dogs
Article 672 of the Criminal Code "Failure of animal care and bad government" punishes those who are released, or holds with due caution, dangerous animals in his possession.
14. "Polenta e Osei"
in public places is forbidden to serve polenta and wild birds even if they are species hunted and killed legally.
15. Trespassing
Article 614 of the Criminal Code "trespassing" punishes those who brings in the gardens and outbuildings of houses.
16. Killing of dogs, cats, poultry
Article 638 of the Criminal Code "Killing animals or damage to others" punish anyone who kills or renders useless, impairment or poison animals that belong to individuals.
17. Poisoned
Article 727 of the Criminal Code "animal abuse" also punishes those who cause death by poisoning them, and the Hunting Law criminalizes those who use poisoned bait.
18. Disorder of people
Article 659 of the Criminal Code "Disorder of the occupations or the rest of the people" who punishes with noises disturb the occupations or the rest of the people.
19. Shooting near homes
Article. 703 of the Criminal Code "Ignitions and explosions, dangerous" criminalizes those who lived in a place or its vicinity or along a public highway or shoot towards it with firearms.
Who monitors compliance with the laws on hunting?
supervision on law enforcement on hunting (art.27 L.157/92) is entrusted to: Hunting in the Province Guards, Police, State Forestry, State Police, Financial Police, Municipal Police, Guards voluntary environmental groups hunting and hunting.
Who denounce violations of hunting?
supervision on law enforcement on hunting (art.27 L.157/92) is entrusted to: Hunting in the Province Guards, Police, State Forestry, State Police, Financial Police, Municipal Police, Guard volunteers hunting hunting and environmental groups.
Citizens can denounce the criminal and administrative bodies in each of the above. It should be noted that Article. 361 of the Criminal Code "Failure to Report Crime by the public official" punishes any public official, as the policeman, guarding the province, the forest, the financier, the guard hunting, the local policeman, who omits or delays to report at 'The judicial authority of a crime which it was aware in the exercise or a causa delle sue funzioni, come ad esempio i reati sulla caccia denunciati a loro dai cittadini. Il cittadino deve quindi pretendere che le suddette autorità intervengano, ricevano la denuncia e denuncino alla Magistratura i reati commessi dai cacciatori.
Come vietare la caccia nei propri terreni?
Purtroppo le leggi vigenti impediscono di fatto di vietare ai cacciatori di entrare nei terreni agricoli dei privati a meno che non siano recintati con rete non inferiore a 1,20 metri. Solo in particolari casi e solo ogni 5 anni può essere richiesto per legge il divieto di caccia.
