- From March to September we have read and heard in the press the shameful confrontation between the Federation of Hunters of Gipuzkoa and the Provincial Council of Gipuzkoa. We are used to seeing companies in the primary sector and other lobbies squeeze the Member under the guise of the interests of the baserritars and farmers, and once again, it has become apparent how they use dirty play.
In this case, it is the hunting federations that have acted on the basis of pure demagogy to avoid the conditions that limit their activity. In March, the conflict with the Diputación began, ceasing to do a bigger game as a strategy. They know that the choirs, and particularly wild boars, cause damage to the growing fields, and using it as blackmail, have conditioned the hunting order published annually by the Provincial Council, forcing them not to take the measures that harm them. It has also drawn attention to the note that the hunting federations of Gipuzkoa made shortly after the conclusion of the agreement when they heard their requests by congratulating Imanol Lasa Zeberio, Member of the Commission for Development, Tourism and Rural Development. They have made clear the Member's action in this area.
But that agreement has only welcomed the hunters, so shameful has been the agreement and the entire unilateral strike of the cazadores.Los EHNE and ENBA trade unions have shown their discomfort by the fact that the Member has not taken them into account in this case. As they have denounced, conditions have been agreed in the agreement that are not of their interest or that are contrary to their interests.
It is noteworthy that, as soon as the agreement is concluded, the hunting federations of Gipuzkoa have been able to listen to their requests by congratulating Imanol Lasa Zeberio, Member of the Commission for Development, Tourism and Rural Development. Evidence of the Member's action in this area
All of this in Naturkone has been followed by a long time, and the Member has not taken this into account in this case. As we have repeatedly denounced, we find the management of hunting in Gipuzkoa shameful. Apart from knowledge based on scientific research and on the analysis of biodiversity, the Provincial Council manages hunting regulations as a market in which hunters’ interests are treated. Put your wishes before society and the owners affected by major hunting. The situation is shameful and denounceable. At a time when we are denouncing more than ever the hunting activity in our society, the loss of biodiversity and, in general, the global ecological crisis in street demonstrations, the Council negotiates with the federations the hunting regulations in the belief that their interests are of the whole of society.
Hunting management cannot be subordinated to the interests of hunters, as, among other things, the hunting federations of Gipuzkoa not only reject the work of scientists and researchers, but completely reject the demands of society (as the case of Ulía shows). Consequently, and like the agricultural unions, we call on the Member to take account of all the players involved in the hunting council both in the management of the major and the minor game.
In fact, focusing on technical reports and scientific research, the hunting order should be discussed between the experts of the hunting council and not in clandestine meetings between stakeholders and politicians.