Hunters and Hunters. History. Mirco Lodi talks about the transformation of the hunting activity. There Hunting over the years it has changed a lot: more restrictive rules, tighter controls especially for weaponry, increasingly urgent environmental obligations and above all greater collaboration between those who practice it and those who make the land on which it takes place available, respectively cacciatore and farmer.
These two figures are now playing a leading role in the control of fauna species and also of the territory, so much so that the expert hunter Mirco Lodi goes so far as to say that “no one is more environmentalist than those who go hunting”.
He has been beating the land of the province for almost 40 years. At the age of 16, his father took him hunting with him and he experienced firsthand the radical change that swept the world of hunting. “Hunting has changed a lot in the last 30 years,” says Lodi.
“Now the hunter is above all a manager of the territory - explains Lodi - because for example he is at the forefront in preventing damage to the world of agriculture. The collaboration with the agricultural world is very close both for the control of invasive species, such as corvids that literally destroy the orchards in large quantities, and as compensation for damages caused by all those animals that can be hunted ".
A change that took place gradually because “slowly we began to understand that hunting no longer has the function it once did. The emblem of this change is the fact that in one year it is possible to go hunting for five months. In reality, the hunter, with all the other activities he carries out for the management of the territory and wildlife, actually works for a whole year. Scheduled catches and redistribution of some animal species are now part of the world of hunting ”.
“Once - says Lodi - we went hunting for the“ piece ”(for the meat of the hunted animal, ed). This practically no longer exists today. Added to this is the fact that at the same time the agricultural world has changed but also the whole system that revolves around hunting. In practice there has been a radical change ”.
“In short - explains Lodi - today the hunter needs the farmer because clearly one goes to the countryside to hunt and vice versa the farmer needs us because we safeguard his work”. Today a very important role is played by dogs: "We carry out many races in the territories - says Lodi - to train them and together with this what we get many times we donate to charity".
(19 October 2015)
Source: LaNuovaFerrara