Hunting and Migration: Tuscany, during the conference on the theme “Tuscan knowledge. Comparing scientific studies ”, we talked about migratory fauna; soon the Region will ask the EU to hunt the starling to limit the damage to agriculture.
"We will continue on this path, the road of serious scientific knowledge, also to be able to build hunting calendars", was the announcement of Gianni Salvadori, regional councilor for agriculture, forests, hunting and fishing, in the conference on migratory fauna ( "Tuscan knowledge. Comparative scientific studies") which took place yesterday morning, January 24, in Florence in the auditorium of the Regional Council to take stock of the monitoring, in progress for over twenty years, relating to migratory fauna. During the initiative there was also a discussion on the principles for a hunting collection of migratory avifauna that complies with the dictates of the EU Directive concerning the conservation of wild birds (Manuel Esparrago, responsible for the conclusions of the initiative, came from Brussels to Florence of "political affairs" in FACE, a European association of hunters). In his speech, the commissioner Salvadori also underlined the will of the Tuscany Region to accelerate the pace to ask the European Union to hunt the starling ("after the wild boar and the roe deer, the starling is the species that causes the most damage to Tuscan agriculture: serious and unacceptable damage ").
In the field of scientific research on birds, the Tuscan Ornithological Center (COT) has been operating for over 20 years in a region which, due to its geographical position, plays a key role presenting many ornithologically relevant areas. and professionals, present in the area. The data collected in the COT projects (including a monitoring of nocturnal birds, a study on seagulls in cities, an atlas on birds in winter, one on nesting birds) are stored in an electronic database which is a valuable source of geo-referenced information on whole Tuscany.
25 January 2014
The Tuscan Regional Authority