Hunting: Europe, AECT, the European Association of Traditional Hunting, met in Avignon, France, to examine programs and studies on turdidae at the European level.
The AECT / European Association of Traditional Hunts met in Avignon, at the headquarters of the Fédération Départementale des Chasseurs de Vaucluse, to examine a series of technical dossiers and propose to its members a program of investigations and research on Turdidae at European level . The primary objective is the commissioning of a European monitoring network of huntable turdidae in southern Europe - bottaccio, sassello, cesena, blackbird and tordela (which, we recall, in the Mediterranean panorama is not a species that can only be hunted in Italy) - in particular in countries of nesting, therefore in the north-east of our continent, where we will also try to carry out constant surveillance on the state of conservation of the habitats.
The members of the Association have, in fact, agreed on the need to focus on the analysis of the demographic trends of the respective populations of birds that cross Italy, France and Spain in the autumn, which largely depend on the previous reproductive trend, which is obviously linked to the availability and quality of the peculiar habitats where the Turdids love to nest.
It was also agreed that, as regards the Mediterranean countries, it is instead fundamental to collect data on game bags, also by virtue of the evident relevance now commonly accorded to this kind of information by all institutions, starting with the Community ones such as the Commission which, not surprisingly, together with FACE made it one of the cornerstones of the Sustainable Hunting Initiative (SHI in the English acronym).
Another topic of debate, in this case of a historical-cultural nature, the initiatives to be implemented to sponsor a path towards the recognition of traditional Mediterranean hunts for Passerines as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, as they are sometimes representative of rural traditions. very ancient which, where still exercised by virtue of local derogations from the Birds Directive, prove to be absolutely compatible with the conservation of bird populations, as well as preserving human identities. Finally, the last organizational details of the XVI European Chuck Competition were discussed, which will take place on 19 and 20 April in the French town of Saint-Cyr-sur-Mer, in the Var Department.
The meeting was coordinated by the President of AECT, Giovanni Bana, together with the Honorary President, Bernard Mathieu, the Secretary General, Massimo Marracci and the Treasurer, Marc Meissel and was attended by the French representatives Jean-Paul Florentino, Marc Allione, Lionel Long, Eric Camoin and Marcel Vaquer, the Spanish representatives of APAVAL, Pasqual Batalla and Vicente Albaro Bachero and the Italian representative of the FIdC / UCIM, Carlo Romanelli. The other representatives (Cyprus, Greece, Malta and Portugal) had already given their broadest adherence to the lines, so determined, in the long working day. The technical-scientific contribution was offered by Jean-Claude Ricci, Director of the IMPCF, and by Alexandre Czajkowsi of the OMPO.
25 March 2013
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