Fallow Deer Emergency: The first fallow deer of the Pineta di Classe, considered in supernumerary, were killed on Wednesday morning. These are four or five specimens, which came out of the pine forest to go to some horticultural crops.
The plan prepared by the Province to reduce the number of specimens (currently two hundred) and implemented by the ATC Ra2 became operational last Monday. The selecontrollers who climbed the roof terraces set up outside the pinewood area waited in vain on Monday. On Wednesday, however, some fallow deer came out into the countryside surrounding the pine forest and was cut down. THE PREPARED SELECTION PLAN provides for the killing of 63 specimens. The reasons behind the decision to reduce the number of fallow deer della Pineta di Classe refer to the damage caused to farmers who cultivate the land in the area and to road accidents on the Adriatic road caused by ungulates. The selection, which began on 8 December, must be completed by Saturday 28 February 2015. The decision to proceed with the killing of the ungulates was accompanied by a hard and boundless controversy in two cases in acts of vandalism such as when the car was smeared. of a selecontroller and three roof terraces were damaged. There are those who have offered to host the fallow deer, but - says the Province - the law does not allow any other way than culling.
In the hunting world and within the ATC, however, there is a certain pessimism. «We are considered killers - explains a selecontroller - and uncontrolled levels of controversy have been reached. How can you say that over 60 fallow deer from the Classe pine forest can be housed in an eleven-hectare enclosure? Scientific books explain that two pairs of fallow deer can live on eleven hectares. Why insist then? ».
«We operate in objectively intolerable conditions - adds another selecontroller - and I believe that the Province is thinking of suspending the activity. I don't know when we will return to the rooftops ».
Yesterday at 15 pm, in the meantime, Eleonora Schonwald, Alvaro Ancisi and Francesca Santarella presented the announcement exposed in the Prosecutor's Office.
Ravenna, 12 December 2014
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