The role of hunters
One more demonstration, the sustainable use of resources is the key to the conservation of wetlands, while bans lead to environmental degradation. The area is in Liguria, a wedge of residual wetland in an area full of houses, industries, bathing establishments and communication routes, was maintained by hunters, who contained the vegetation and managed the waters.
Images in comparison
Since 2021 the area has been included in a protected area that is prohibited from hunting, with the results that can be viewed without problems in two images, to be inevitably compared.
Obvious difference
Here is what emerged:
- in the first photo, a wetland open to hunting and managed by hunters;
- in the second photo, the same area after entering the protected area.
Hunting is a habitat conservation tool!