Argenta (Ferrara), 27 April 2023– A Land Rover sways on the side of the roadway, a little bit more than a course made from collected asphalt, pits and earth that goes through the center of Mezzano. We are a couple of kilometers from Ostellato, in green earth flat sky for the wheat that reaches Comacchio. There are rows of trees and thorns, beds of reeds, some forests.
Here, a sort of crossroads, he lives among 3 wolf packs acknowledged in our state. The other is a Campotto ( Argenta) and in the pinewood location on the border with the province of Ravenna
Wolf and Mattia Lanzoni with Stefano Grignolio, scientists at the University of Ferrara
Here is the job force ( video) produced by specialists from Delta Park, scientists from the university, WWF, Forest Carabinieri, Region and Region is relocating the steps of wolves. And cam traps through the evaluation of the footprints on the ground and the feces, of the carcasses that leave after feeding, one attempts to comprehend. the number of there are, what they consume, how they move Recognition.
In the jeep, the other day early morning under the sun attempting to break through after a day of hail and rain, Mattia Lanzoni and Stefano Grignolio, scientists at the University of Ferrara. “Yes, I saw a wolf– states Lanzoni– it was a hundred meters from me. A split second and it vanished”. According to current research studies, wolves in our area they are 8 totally various numbers. After a specific duration, the young puppies different from the initial household and go to rule another area. The very first– after a long period of time which was now thought to be extinct in our plain– appears to be. got here from the Apennines It was 2019 when the pack appeared in Campotto, hunters saw and taped them. The video went viral, to the consternation and scary of the forefathers that lasted for a very long time.
Lanzoni and Grignolio stop the vehicle, go out. In front of them a cleaning, on the left a field, behind a blue area of a tractor. “Here the electronic camera trap– they state– has actually taken the wolf numerous times, The trash was the exact same in this farm It is a crossroads, a fortunate location of questions. There are paths that animals follow, they are preferential paths, meeting point, they can be specified as events. Here they are some young puppies born which we tape-recorded thanks to the eye of the video camera traps”.
They have 2 sensing units, they snap for motion and likewise for heat Exactly avoiding even a falling leaf from triggering the system. Now the job force is studying animal nutrition. “What do they consume? From the very first tests more than 70% nutria, is their primary food. They can get some hare, roe deer which are seen here. Exactly the existence of food is definitive in the motion of this predator, in its environment and in its spread. Without nutrition, in this case without coypu, there will be no wolf pack.”
The research study of this hunter that brings to life popular fairy tales and for a long time now likewise inhabited the front pages of papers includes Delta Park, led by director Massimiliano Costa, park biologists Anna Gavioli and Stefano Zannini, WWF, Forest Police with Colonel Giovanni Nobili. “It is a types that can adjust, that takes in resources– state Mattia Lanzoni and Stefano Grignolio, words that shiver from the shaking of the jeep -. We study this animal however we definitely can not reject that sometimes it can be consisted of in its menu animals too There is resources to supply responses to farmers, the Region has the capability to assign funds for flower to eliminate wolves, to have i canine who secure the sheep. In Italy there are specialists who look after this, how to step in to lower the damage. Man and wolf can cohabit however we need to not forget that he is a hunter.”
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