"For the first time hunters and environmentalists come together for a ribbon-cutting that is not just a symbolic gesture but that represents something really important by offering more than a positive message". With these words, the mayor of San Severino Marche, Cesare Martini, inaugurated the exhibition "Biodiversity and wildlife management in the Marche" organized by the Territorial Hunting Area Atc Mc1 and the Civic Museum of Natural History of Jesolo with the contribution of the Regional Nature Reserve of Mount San Vicino and Mount Canfaito and Cea and the patronage of the Municipality of San Severino Marche, the Comunità Montana Area 4, the Region and the Province. The exhibition will remain open until January 31, 2015 in the cloister of San Domenico and will be open from Tuesday to Friday from 16 to 19 pm, on Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays from 9,30 to 12,30 and from 15 to 19. guided visits and for tours dedicated to schools, reservations are required at the Environmental Education Center tel. 3333720483 or by email at [email protected]. For further information, you can also contact Atc MC1 on the telephone number 0733633431 or by email at [email protected]. Numerous authorities took part in the ribbon cutting together with many citizens. Representing the Municipality of San Severino Marche were the mayor, Cesare Martini, and the councilors Simona Gregori and Giampaolo Muzio, for the Territorial Area of Hunting there were the president, Franco Lardelli, the vice president, Giovanni Filoni, and all the board members, who took part in the event together with the director of the Jesolo Civic Museum of Natural History, Roberto Basso.
Then present the councilor for hunting of the Marche Region, Paola Giorgi, the parliamentarian David Favia, the councilor Giovanni Torresi for the Province of Macerata, the mayors of Treia, Franco Capponi, of Montefano, Carlo Carnevali, the municipal councilors Gilberto Chiodi and Alessandra Aronne, the provincial commander of the State Forestry Corps, Giuseppe Bordoni, the commanders of the stations of San Severino Marche, Maurizio Simoncini, and of Cingoli, Claudio Forconi. And the State Forestry Corps has set up a stand inside the exhibition where there is also a beautiful specimen of golden eagle and where the numerous activities carried out daily by the men of "1515" are presented. The exhibition "Biodiversity and wildlife management in the Marches" is an educational and interactive course conceived, in particular, for school groups. It is spread over an area of 2 thousand square meters and is composed of several large dioramas on mammals and taxidermic preparations of ungulates and carnivores, but also of dioramas on the avifauna typical of aquatic ecosystems, with particular reference to anatidae and herdids. .
Then there are microdioramas relating to different environments: garrigue with waders and alaudids, riparian reeds with slowworms, hilly environment with galliformes, pre-mountain environment with turdidae and finches, environment with intensive or marginal agriculture with corvids and, finally, woods and humid environments with colopacids. The exhibition also includes an exhibition of diurnal and nocturnal birds of prey together with a naturalistic photographic exhibition, with the contribution of five of the greatest living Italian photographers, and an exhibition on unwanted allochthonous fauna. The educational path is introduced by a mural by Charles Darwin, on the origin of the species, and lastly, there is also an exhibition of original works by Roberto Lemmi together with posters and period notices on the evolution of hunting and fauna in the Marches from 1600 to today, with particular reference to damage to crops and the hunter's bond with the territory.
(8 October 2014)
Source: CorrierreAdriatico