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Associazione Cacciatori Trentini (ACT)

Associazione Cacciatori Trentini (ACT)

Hunting association

Associazione Cacciatori Trentini (ACT)

Job Title

Hunting association

Info

Associazione Cacciatori Trentini has been identified by the Autonomous Province of Trento as the most representative hunter association at the local scale. For this reason, it has been delegated to the direct management of the three main ungulate species of the province (red deer, roe deer and chamois). Beside managing hunting activities, the association also carries out surveys and monitoring of fauna species, large carnivores included. It also supports research projects and environment protection activities in collaboration with the Autonomous Province of Trento and other local institutions. In addition, it supports health monitoring activities, provides support in case of natural disasters, and performs restoration and improvement interventions of natural habitats. To efficiently fulfill such goals, the association counts on qualified and graduated wildlife technicians and on personnel responsible for hunting surveillance, faunistic census and other technical tasks. In the context of the Stewardship Program, the association is interested in taking active part in the wolf population monitoring at the local scale, in promoting a correct information on the wolf to hunters, and to participate in a study to understand predator-prey dynamics.

Accordo di Stewardhip

ACT already collaborate with MUSE and the Autonomous Province of Trento, contributing to the wolf monitoring activities, and, in general, carnivores monitoring in the Province.

The main objectives of the stewardship agreement are:

  • Go on with the collaboration in wolf monitoring activities by further training both ACT personnel and hunters and provide them with the necessary tools to a correct and efficient data collection on the field, as well as motivate them to pursue a long-term wolf monitoring on the territory.
  • Favour a correct and objective information on wolf presence to hunters. To this purpose, informative-training meetings for ACT personnel and hunters in each hunting District/Reserve will be planned.
  • production and publication of informative articles on the wolf in Association’s journal “Il Cacciatore Trentino”
  • Start a study on wolf-prey relationship in Trentino
Bohinjska Bistrica Hunting Club

Bohinjska Bistrica Hunting Club

Hunting Club

Bohinjska Bistrica Hunting Club

Job Title

Hunting Club

Info

Bohinjska Bistrica hunting club was founded in 1946 and has 44 members. The hunting ground is highly mountainous, ranging from 500 to 1.800 m above sea level, and measures 4.500 ha in size. It is located on the periphery of the Triglav National Park in the municipality of Bohinj. The hunting ground manages, among others, roe deer, red deer, chamois, and mouflon, occasionally even wild boar is present. Of the large carnivores, lynx and wolf are newly arrived species with constant presence, and occasionally also brown bear wanders through the area. In addition to the management of the game populations in the hunting area and the maintenance of hunting surveillance, the hunting club also collaborates with research and expert institutions to monitor the status of the wolf and lynx populations in Slovenia, thus contributing to a better understanding of these populations in the Alpine region. The members of the hunting club cooperate well with the neighbouring hunting clubs in the municipality of Bohinj, namely the hunting clubs Nomenj – Gorjuše and Stara Fužina. This cooperation is organized under the slogan “Hunters of Bohinj” and includes, among other things, an annual joint hunt and, yet for more than 30 years, the organization of a hunting-nature-conservation day “Hunting Day” for pupils of the 5th grade of Primary school.

Accordo di Stewardhip

The hunting club Bohinjska Bistrica is cooperating with the Slovenia Forest Service in a study of predator-prey-hunters relationship in the frame of LIFE WolfAlps EU project. Their work will involve setting up box traps, capturing roe deer for deployment of telemetric collars, monitoring roe deer movements, taking measurements and biological samples for the analysis of the animals’ condition. In order to provide the local inhabitants with correct and objective information on the activities of the hunters and the LIFE WolfAlps EU project, communication on these activities will be promoted in diverse ways in the framework of the Stewardship program.

Comprensorio Alpino CN5

Comprensorio Alpino CN5

Hunting association

Comprensorio Alpino CN5

Job Title

Hunting association

Info

The Comprensorio Alpino is legally a private association with public aims for the wildlife and hunting management of a part of the provincial territory. Specifically, the Comprensorio Alpino CN5 is located in the Pesio, Vermenagna and Gesso Valleys. The activities of CACN5, according to Law no. 157 of 11th February 1992 and Regional Law no. 70 of 4th September 1996, consist in the management of hunters’ admission procedures, the organisation of census activities for both huntable and non-huntable species, the determination and implementation of wildlife repopulation plans, the assessment and settlement of damage to agricultural crops caused by wildlife, the proposal and regulation of plans for the culling of particular species of fauna.

Accordo di Stewardhip

The aim of Stewardship is to widen the line of collaboration defined in the LWA EU project, involving the alpine area as a whole in the prey-predator-human activity research (Action C3), and jointly developing information activities on the territory, on the production and sharing of documentation and news related to Action C3 and on the wolf in general, not only on a local but also on a regional and national scale, in order to allow a transfer of complete and objective knowledge and information to as many hunters and hunting associations as possible. In fact, obtaining this kind of knowledge through participatory work is particularly effective in guaranteeing the reliability and credibility of the results. In particular, the agreement provides for the joint implementation of the study on prey-predator-human activity dynamics, and the joint communication of the study project.

Would you like to become a Steward of the LIFE WolfAlps EU project?

Write to info@lifewolfalps.eu and we will put you in touch with the local Stewardship Office managers!

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