Hunting and Fauna: in Tambre, in the province of Belluno, on the Cansiglio plateau, the deer attacked the grass and hay reserves of a farmer, “We must start with the abatement plan”.
The snow comes back to the Cansiglio deer, whose population has apparently grown exponentially, who have attacked the forage, grass and hay reserves of a farmer from Tambre, in Val Menera in the province of Belluno. As many as 85 animals showed up on Friday evening by Alessandro Gava, a farmer with an agritourism in the coldest valley of the forest. Alex counted them one by one. In every way they tried to bring the assault to its reserves of grass and hay, sheltered by a fence. There was also a breakthrough but the farmer resisted in his own way. Last night, to give him a hand, the volunteers of the Anpa union, led by Paolo Casagrande, went up to Val Menera.
“In the Val Menera alone, a few hundred deer have returned from the Pordenone foothills, hungry after the long weeks of snow. The Region cannot stand at the window ”. The Region, in fact, has decided not to stay there. This was assured by the councilor for agriculture, Franco Manzato, who climbed yesterday in Fregona. “It is clear that after what has happened in Val Menera we cannot leave the farmers alone to fight the fury of the deer”, Manzato tries to reassure. "We must finally start with the culling campaign, decided at the time by the region and organized by Veneto Agricoltura".
A campaign that foresees the reduction of 1200 deer in three years, therefore 400 per year. Reduction which means killing, not simply capturing and transferring animals to other parks. Manzato will talk about it in the coming days with the president of the Region, Luca Zaia, who last year opposed starting the campaign, to avoid recourse to Europe by animal rights activists. His councilor, however, considers the operation now inevitable and assures him "friends" of the environmental associations that the campaign will not be entrusted to the hunters but to the provincial hunting guards. "We will study the way that hunting takes place with the utmost rigor", assures Manzato.
Meanwhile, the Anpa trade union is moving with Manzato himself so that the large pasture in Cornesega, which is bound to "feed" the ungulates, is destined for breeders. “It is about 10 hectares of pasture that are abandoned to the point that even ungulates do not frequent it, because they prefer to approach the stables, farms, where they find the freshest grass to feed on. Veneto Agriculture, therefore, makes them available, perhaps to our farmers, through specific transparency, who will re-cultivate and mow them ". In the meantime, to always defend itself from deer, another company in the plateau will provide itself with a new enclosure in the coming days. And this despite the stop of the mayors.
22 April 2013
Source: CorrieredelleAlpi