Who conducted the study
The Apennine Chamois Project was presented in Rome last month at the CIC Council . The study, led by the Italian delegation, was presented to International President Dr. Philipp Harner, Director General Sebastian Winkler, Heads of Delegations, and State Members, and garnered great interest and approval.
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Priority species
The Apennine chamois is one of the most localized Italian faunal entities, included as a priority species in Annexes II and IV of the Habitats Directive 92/43/EEC and in other community regulations; its value is such that it has been registered as a subspecies at risk of extinction in the red list of mammals drawn up by the IUCN (International Union for the Conservation of Nature - IUCN-1996) and of particular protection by Italian legislation. The study involved the evaluation of the trophies of this species in the context of two official measurements, which took place in 2010 and 2018 in Pescasseroli at the Naturalistic Collections of the Abruzzo, Lazio and Molise Natural Park, demonstrating that the hunting world and the environment can work in harmony to produce a result that cannot be achieved individually.
Italian proposal
In light of the research, the Italian proposal to assign a specific CIC score to the species for the first time was accepted during the International Trophy Evaluation Board (ITEB), held in 2018 in Bassano del Grappa (source: CIC).
