It will be held on Tuesday 18 February at the headquarters UTR Bergamo in via XX Settembre 18 / A from 9,00 to 17,00 the course for the monitoring of wintering woodcocks in protected areas. The course was organized by Directorate General for Agriculture, Food and Green Systems in the person of the Director of the Forestry Systems Development, Mountain Agriculture, use and protection of agricultural land and Wildlife-Hunting Policies dr. Roberto Daffonchio, who implemented the project presented by UBI (Union for Woodcock Italy).
The course will be held by prof. Paolo Pennacchini President of UBI and FANBPO (Federation of National Associations of Woodcockers of the Western Palearctic) and will focus on notions of biology and ethology species, legislation, monitoring techniques, wing reading laboratory and final verification test. The cost of the course is € 30,00 to be paid upon enrollment. The purpose of the course is the training of monitors of the behavior of the woodcock in the post-migration period in different environments and in different climatic conditions.
This initiative, which has already been implemented in other provinces and envisaged at other UTRs of the Lombardy Region, hits the mark with what should be the correct approach to a coherent wildlife-hunting management, that is based on scientific studies and environmental researches that are the basis of an adequate hunting planning and which has as its primary objective that of a sustainable harvest, for woodcock as for any other wild. The provincial section of Federcaccia Bergamo thanks UTR Bergamo for the availability and collaboration with UBI in the management and organization of the course.