Pescasseroli (L'Aquila), January 15 - It is scheduled for spring 2012 and will be attended by about 200 experts, scholars and researchers from all over the world.
This is the Sixth World Congress on Mountain Ungulates, which the Park will organize in collaboration with the IUCN “Caprinae Specialist Group”.
Appropriate contacts have already begun with the members of the Group's Task Force, committed to taking care of the event in detail, establishing the theme of the meeting, evaluating and selecting communications and related proposals, defining the list of guests " excellent ". The Congress will last three days and will presumably take place in May (the precise and definitive dates will be established following the verified availability of the most important "experts").
The Fifth Congress was recently held in Granada, where the situation of ungulates in the world was taken stock; a point that will be verified at the National Park of Abruzzo, Lazio and Molise in about two years. That will be the occasion, says President Giuseppe Rossi, "to also evaluate the situation in our country and, as far as we are concerned, to present the complex problems of conservation and management of the important species that populate our territory and, in particular way, those of the Abruzzo chamois, the chamois (most beautiful in the world), autochthonous and present in the European and IUCN Red Lists of animals at risk of extinction ".
It will therefore be possible to evaluate the results obtained in the light of the protection and reintroduction operations implemented in the past years and the possible results of the research that the organization is currently undertaking, in order to overcome the difficulties and delays that have characterized the research on the species of the last fifteen years. Naturally, we will also discuss other ungulates such as deer, roe deer and, of course, wild boar, with all the related problems.
Source: AGI