Conference on small sedentary game organized by Arci Caccia to be held in Bibbona on April 15, 2011.
Conference on small sedentary game organized by Arci Caccia to be held in Bibbona on April 15, 2011. The management of small sedentary fauna, with particular reference to hare and pheasant and to a lesser extent partridge and red partridge, has experienced a phase of great development in recent years in Tuscany but has also recorded situations of great difficulty. However, with some exceptions, the cornerstone of the management of these species focused on wildlife institutes (Restocking and Capture Areas and Areas of Respect for Hunting) when projects aimed at environmental improvements were launched, it was possible to count on the commitment of volunteers and an attempt has been made to limit, in some situations, the introduction of animals reared up to the achievement of faunal self-sufficiency thanks to the "reproducers" provided by the faunal structures.
Alongside the excellences, on the other hand, one cannot fail to underline how the practice of management disengagement has also taken place in favor of massive introductions of bred subjects, which have sometimes produced unsatisfactory results, even from a hunting point of view.
There is, at the moment, a worrying decline in faunal presences also in the Restocking and Capture Areas, especially as regards the pheasant. The reform of the CAP has brought about profound changes in agriculture, not always useful for fauna and its management and conservation; hunters, and therefore volunteering, have decreased; financial resources are always less or absorbed by other management needs. However, the expectation of hunters for sedentary game has not diminished, but the paucity of results is creating a widespread feeling of disappointment.
Some have found partial consolation by shifting their attention to other forms of hunting, others have even stopped hunting or are contemplating doing so. And the fact remains that there is a risk of irremediably reducing a fauna heritage typical of the Tuscan countryside and, at the same time, of being substituted for hunting purposes with ever greater inputs of farm animals, shifting the center of gravity from management to ready hunting, with the consequences that this may also entail from a cultural point of view.
However, we do not want to resign ourselves to the irreversible decline: the discussion on the Fauna Plans will open shortly and we want to take the opportunity to bring the problem to attention and at the same time make a contribution to solving the problems. Solution that we seek not in shortcuts, but in the comparison between experiences with the aim of seeking innovative management forms, even starting in some cases from experimentation and research, ready to take on new challenges because we are aware that it is inherent in the nature of things. transformation and therefore the need to adapt our choices to these changes: "One cannot descend twice in the same river and one cannot touch twice a mortal substance in the same state, but because of the impetuosity and speed of the change it it disperses and collects, comes and goes. " (Heraclitus VI - V century BC)
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