THETerritorial Hunting Area of Lucca communicated the official date and times for checks on biological samples of the culled deer of hunting season 2016-2017. We are talking about Friday 7 April 2017, day in which the jaws, skulls and trophies of the leaders will be examined. From 16 to 17 it will be possible to carry out these checks at the headquarters of the Lucca ATC (precisely in Lucca, in Via dello Stadio 64), while from 18 to 19:30 the same monitoring will concern the headquarters of Castelnuovo Garfagnana.
Just last December there was an in-depth discussion of the culling of ungulates in the province of Lucca. In particular, the wild boars killed in the last three months of 2016 were not enough to curb the emergency, given that the population had not decreased.
Furthermore, all of Tuscany had to deal with 230 thousand wild boars, 200 thousand roe deer, 12 thousand fallow deer, 4 thousand deer and 3 thousand mouflons, four times the Italian average: the toll booth of Lucca East he is the one who recorded the most serious and dangerous episodes.