Doing good is all the rage, which does not consist only in acquitting or sending off non-EU robberies and robbers because they are victims of 'social unease', but also in working towards the abolition of hunting deer and bovids during the period. of loves, which, throughout Europe, represents the best time to choose the garment to be picked up. No group of scientists has ever said that this practice causes damage and therefore should be abolished. And so, to obey this new cultural trend, the roaring deer hunt has already been canceled from the calendar of Friuli-Venezia Giulia (a Region with a Special Statute that can be said to have "imported selection hunting" in Italy). But when ideology takes over science, this also happens. A learned article by Ettore Zanon in the beautiful magazine Cacciare a Palla has been published on the subject of “bellowing hunting”, which among many merits also has the demerit of having acted as a sounding board for this feel-good philosophy. The article touched a nerve of Goffredo Grassani, a great expert in alpine hunting, who contributed to the growth of the deer population of the Tarvisio Forest from the few specimens of the 50s to the thousands of specimens today. It is from Tarvisio that the deer that have repopulated our Apennines left 20 years ago, from Emilia Romagna, to Tuscany, to Umbria, up to the forests of Pollino in Calabria. This is also due to the sampling techniques, including bellow hunting, practiced throughout Europe. Here is the answer that Goffredo sent to the magazine and that we allow ourselves to bring to your attention. BM
"Roaring deer”: Such a title on the cover could not fail to attract my curiosity. I was expecting a technical intervention, an analysis of the problem from a scientific point of view, what do I know, a study on eco-ethological reflections, on population dynamics, on environmental upheaval in the woods, sanctuary of small noises, overwhelmed by the disturbing resounding of the roar . None of this. The article is only an intervention "in favor" of the novelty of the century, the suspension of deer hunting during the roaring period, not for technical / scientific reasons, but like this, because it seems good. All seasoned only with apodictic statements, thrown away, just to continue a staging that began at Fiera di Primiero, “Cervus 2007”. I wonder if the columnist, who is part of the Editorial Committee of "Cacciare aball", has read carefully what is reported by the magazine on the subject, and in particular the opinion of Dr. Silvano Toso, who does not need comments. Among other things, if it were really a necessity, scientifically proven, the suspension of hunting should be combined with the suspension of any and all woodland activity, detrimental to the delicate moment of love: no mushrooms, or other products of the undergrowth, no excursions, photographs, documentaries. , no forestry proper. (Want parks?). A situation that, combined with that of the ibex (excluded from hunting precisely in its homeland and exclusive father of the spread of the species throughout Europe), that of the Montecristo goat and the Mesola deer (three Italic gems), to the qualification game law (which we must safeguard so that the rest of Europe can make better use of it), will greatly contribute to making us further ridiculous in front of the whole world. Weidmannsheil! Goffredo Grassani.
Caccia Passione will be happy to host a possible replica of Ettore Zanon or anyone who has something to say about it. FC