Ben 24.385 the hectares of managed / conserved wetlands or restored by hunters in the regions Veneto, Lombardy, Tuscany and Emilia-Romagna. This is a partial figure, since hunters in other regions also restore wetlands and manage them while conserving their biodiversity. There are more than 700.000 birds wintering in the Venice Lagoon and the Po Delta, most of them in specially managed hunting areas. Tens of thousands of water migrants, protected and huntable, who stop during their migrations in fixed hunting stalks set up on ponds and wetlands recreated by hunters, often in highly anthropized environments and with intensive agriculture.
Areas that offer rest and food for migrants, in particular during the return to the breeding grounds, thus contributing to their survival and conservation. There are hundreds and hundreds of nests of a large number of species that take place in these areas, also in this case creating biodiversity in areas that would be lacking it. And so you slow down, ducks, waders, passerines of reeds, thanks to hunters frequent our country, whose territory is increasingly attacked by land consumption, from intensive and mechanized agriculture and the general lack of management of problematic fauna.
The slogan of the 2022 Wetlands Day celebrated tomorrow, February 2, is “Enhance, manage, restore, love wetlands”. The word "Restore" is new compared to previous years and the Secretariat of the Ramsar Convention he therefore wanted to underline the need for a change of pace: managing the existing is no longer enough, these precious areas must be restored.
This is why the world of hunters, this year even more, looks like the key category for "turning" towards a world richer in wetlands and richer in biodiversity. The hunters contribute in an irreplaceable way to increasing the number of these receptive areas for the avifauna, which stop, feed and are born in the areas recreated and managed for hunting. Hunting Federation thanks all the enthusiasts who invest their money in these environments and is committed to the recognition of this naturalistic role at all institutional levels.
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