The May appointment
On 4 May in the Conference Room of the Museum of Zoology in Rome, from 9:00 to 13:00 ISPRA will present the first Workshop of the LIFE Perdix project. The project is co-financed by the European Union and has as its main objective the recovery and reintroduction into the wild of the Italian partridge (Perdix perdix italica Hilheimer, 1917), today considered formally extinct in the wild. Geographically, the chosen reintroduction area is the SPA IT4060008 “Valle del Mezzano”, in the province of Ferrara.
The recovery of the gray partridge
The project has a duration of 6 years and sees ISPRA working together as coordinating partner, the Command of the Environmental and Agri-Food Forestry Units, the Italian Hunting Federation, the Fédération Nationale des Chasseurs, Legambiente and the Emilia-Romagna Po Delta Regional Park and the National Entity for Italian Dogs which supports the project as a co-financer. The recovery of the Italian partridge will take place thanks to the genetic selection activity carried out by ISPRA on a stock of Apennine origin, comparing it with historical museum samples, prior to the introduction of individuals from other countries for restocking purposes.
Good management practices
The project includes an acclimatization program in 18 reintroduction pens and a set of good environmental management practices to ensure the survival of the reintroduced partridges which will total 27.000. The expected result is to obtain, at the end of the project, a self-sufficient population.
You May Also Like ..
