Also for the summer of 2021, as already done in past years, the association Sa Serra di Oliena hunters renews its commitment to the voluntary service of fire surveillance. The related activity began on 28 June last and will end in the first days of next September offering its collaboration to the men of the Forestry Corps and to the municipal administration in controlling the territory. The service provides for the patrolling of the countryside surrounding the territory of the Sa Serra self-managed area with the control of the part of the territory that it goes from the border with the Municipality of Nuoro, on the one hand, and with the Municipality of Dorgali, on the other.
Since hunters have been engaged in this voluntary service, the territory of Oliena was only marginally affected by the plague of fires and the few cases that have occurred have not created any damage whatsoever. The association of hunters from Oliana chaired by Gianfranco Mereu, in the last year, thanks also to a fruitful and constant collaboration with the municipal administration, first of all with the mayor Sebastiano Congiu and with the councilor for the defense of the environment as well as the agriculture Antonio Congiu, is also involved in restoration of internal self-managed roads damaged by torrential rains last winter, thus allowing various breeders and farmers in the village at the base of Monte Corrasi to be able to reach their farms without problems.
«The hunters, and not just Oliena's - underlines with pride the president of the association Gianfranco Mereu -, they have at heart respect and conservation of the environment and for this reason they are constantly engaged in the control of the territory by collaborating with farmers, breeders and institutions ». For several years, for example, accepting the requests of the Sardinia Region, the volunteer hunters of Oliena have been monitoring the spread of swine fever and it is also thanks to the commitment of hunters that this phenomenon has been drastically reduced - underline the leaders of the Sa Serra di Oliena association - bringing a benefit to the Sardinian pig production chain. A role of fundamental importance, to which is now also added the renewed commitment on the front of the fire-fighting machine (La nuova sardegna).