With the Resolution n ° 767 of 22/06/2020 the Regional Council Toscana approved the “2019-2021 Regional Control Plan for species Hooded Crow (Corvus corone cornix) e Gazza (Pica pica) for the prevention of damage to agricultural and livestock activities and to populations of nesting birds and lagomorphs ". The control interventions will be entrusted in the first instance Provincial Police officers; these will be able to use and delegate, as required by art. 37 LR 3/94, the Voluntary Hunting Security Guards; in this case, in addition to the GGVV responsible for the intervention, the control and management of the traps, as well as the euthanasia killing of captured animals, will also be allowed to qualified personnel pursuant to art. 37 LR 3/94, nominally authorized, as required by art. 32 paragraph 1 letter. q) Regional Law 3/94; ZONES, METHODS AND TIMES: the control activity is authorized throughout the region for the purpose of preventing damage to agricultural crops, in particular fruit and vegetables.
For the reduction of predation on galliformes and on nesting avifauna only in the Restocking and Capture Areas, Hunting Areas, Private Wildlife Reproduction Centers and Wildlife Hunting Companies where they do not occur inputs of farmed game (with the exception of the ZRC and ZRV where reintroduction plans for gray partridge and red partridge are in progress, limited in time and regularly authorized).
The control activity is also authorized in the ZRV and other non-hunting wildlife institutes where extraordinary multiannual game release plans have been approved with the following modalities: use of pheasants and wild hares from capture in the Tuscany region; use of farmed pheasants under the age of 90 days as long as they are placed inside suitable sized acclimatization enclosures equipped with anti-predator nets. In addition to these, the control may be authorized in the SPAs where there are cases of nesting of species of particular conservation interest to be authorized if necessary with a specific Executive Decree. The killing, capture and subsequent euthanasia suppression activities will be authorized for the period 2019 - 2021. The intervention is authorized by being included in the regional IT archives.
we finally got there, controlling the corvids is a wisdom that will allow all the nesters on the ground to return to reproduce without being massacred by these carnivorous species.