A great interest in the subject
The monograph on Sardinian deer licensed by the authors Nicolò Amosso and Enzo Berzieri, STJ and CIC Expert and members of the Italian Faunal Bimetric Academy, it was presented to the Members of the Italian Delegation of the CIC during the Assembly held at the Colombo hotel in Milan. The work resumes the interest of the Delegation for the publication of popular works also with a strong scientific component to make known the most unknown aspects of the Peninsula. In this perspective, the work of the lawyer Michele Popper, author of a precious, unobtainable booklet on the most original museums dedicated to wildlife in Italy, published by the Delegation in 2011 and the very recent Practical Guide on the advanced evaluation of trophies, has become a text adopted internationally in the language. English but which is in the process of being translated into other European mother languages as well.
Museum collection
After a monograph, never printed, on the Apennine chamois signed by the CCM ing. Giorgio Boscarol, other very interesting Italian endemisms remained, primarily the Sardinian deer. How to proceed and who to contact? The lawyer Popper's manual clearly indicates the Settefratelli Sardinian Deer Museum in Cagliari. The first contacts were made in 2019 but due to Covid and other impediments only in 2022 and thanks to the interest of Doctor Fassò, a Sardinian of Piedmontese origin, the green light turned on. The expedition, thanks to the suggestions of Dr. Stefano Mattioli, immediately took on a more scientific connotation than the one initially conceived so the parameters to be collected were not only those to give a CIC score to the museum collection but many others using rigorously the Trophy Evaluation System: the proven and sophisticated measuring system of the CIC. On the merits, the publication consists of two parts: the submission of the subspecies signed by dr. Stefano Mattioli and a second on the elaboration of the data of the only 17 intact finds available in the museum.
The reconquest of the areas
A rich photographic and cartographic documentation shows the decline and the current progressive reconquest of the areas once populated by the Sardinian deer. Incredibly, this is the first time that these data have been systematically collected and can now make a significant contribution to the in-depth knowledge of the Sardinian subspecies. The Delegation and the Academy will present to the Technical Board of the CIC scheduled in Vilnius in August 2023 the most appropriate parameters for the scoring of the subspecies. The Italian Delegation is considering publishing the research on Abruzzo chamois in the same graphic format and continuing with the remaining Italian endemic species to create a unique collection of its kind (source: FIDC).