{"id":17995,"date":"2022-07-11T13:08:15","date_gmt":"2022-07-11T13:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lifewolfalps.eu\/unita-cinofile-antiveleno-life-wolfalps-eu-operative-nella-lotta-al-bracconaggio-2\/"},"modified":"2022-07-21T15:14:00","modified_gmt":"2022-07-21T15:14:00","slug":"unita-cinofile-antiveleno-life-wolfalps-eu-operative-nella-lotta-al-bracconaggio-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lifewolfalps.eu\/en\/unita-cinofile-antiveleno-life-wolfalps-eu-operative-nella-lotta-al-bracconaggio-2\/","title":{"rendered":"LIFE WolfAlps EU Anti-poison Dog Units operational in the fight against poaching"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

During 2021 and the first months of 2022, intensive training was carried out to make the Anti-poison Dog Units (UCA) created within LIFE WolfAlps EU operational in Italy and Austria, two of the four Alpine countries involved in the project. The training made use of the results and methodologies developed during the previous LIFE WolfAlps project, and of the experience of the Carabinieri dog training centre in Florence (for Carabinieri military force). A total of 7 new Anti-poison Dog Units were established.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Some of the Anti-poison Dog Units LWA EU and LWA. Photo: Archive APAM.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In Italy<\/strong> there are 6 new operational UPDUs<\/strong>, of which two in Liguria, one in Piedmont, two in Lombardy and one in Veneto. In particular, the Comando Unit\u00e0 Forestali, Ambientali e Agroalimentari dell’Arma dei Carabinieri<\/strong>, project partner, directly manages three APDUs: in Liguria, Lombardy and Veneto.<\/strong> The second Lombardy unit is the result of a collaboration between the Lombardy Region and the Brescia Provincial Police<\/strong>, project supporter. The Management Authority of the Protected Areas of the Maritime Alps set up the Piedmont unit run by a professional dog trainer and the Ligurian unit with the collaboration of the Wildlife and Environmental Surveillance Unit of the Liguria Region<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new Italian teams flank the four Anti-poison Dog Units set up under the previous LIFE WolfAlps project, made up of personnel from the Metropolitan City of Turin, park rangers from the Cottian Alps Protected Areas Management Authority, and soldiers from the Cuneo and Omegna Forestry Carabinieri<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n