I would have preferred to avoid the polemic but alderman Capecchi's dissertations, of the Commune of they Shift, (appeared some days or they are on the press) some deserve

considerations. I understand that the delegation to the political venatories and environmental is probably incongruous, but to slant only for a part, that venatoria, doesn't make that is certain worth to the alderman. To worry that is that the wolf subtracts game (wild boars and roes) to the hunters, it seems indeed me exaggerated. I would want to remember that the wolf, really for the role that mother nature has submitted him, prey preferentially individuals young people, elderly or however weakened (illnesses, parassitosi, arthrosis, etc.) developing therefore that function of "selector" towards the plundered kinds, towards which the impact of the predazione can vary in operation of the environmental conditions and of the relative density of the preys themselves. Insofar the interactions wolf / prey they are developed, from the that marvelous mechanism of mother nature, that foresees note a such impact of the wolf with the purpose to regulate and to balance the populations plunders, if this didn't happen, in absence that is of predazione, they also know him/it the stones, the ungulate wild you/they are regulated by density-dependent factors however (competition for the food, epizoosi, etc.) what, once reached determine densities, they have the effect to reduce the annual increase of the population. In these circumstances the predazione can be partly considered compensatoria, or not additive to the other causes of natural mortality. A publication of search and study on the wolf from the INFS, declare that the presence of a stable population of wolf doesn't prevent the new insertion and the growth of important populations of autochtonous kind, understood the ungulate ones. Therefore: we stop doing demagogy, the true problem is that everything that that we hold there is of obstacle, you/he/she must be eliminates, unconditionally, without appraising possible negative lapels that will strike again him on the environment (other his/her delegation, doesn't forget him/it Alderman Capecchi) as we have too often been forced to find.

I don't want to make a defense oltranza of the wolf, the problems I am there, but they are those legacies to the damages to the breeders, towards which I still offer one

turns the collaboration of the association WWF, (which has launched never wolves, in fact, contrarily to a false belief to local level, in Italy the wolf has never been object of programs of reintroduction as it confirms a study of the 1998 of the INFS) we don't forget however, that pastoral activities are often found unprepared to effectively face the wolf (es: wild pasture, absence of nets hospitalizes nighttime, absence of dogs, use of passive deterrents and organolettici). And' sure that the tied up normative picture to the programs of indemnification, must have submitted continuously to a trial refinement to change some administrative, managerial and ecological contingencies. The meaning of these programs, must be, essentially, that of a tool of maintenance: coadiuvare the legal protection of the kind safeguarding, at the same time, the affairs of the stricken breeders. This must also be worth as it regards the stray dogs or often simply unguarded, that can produce hybridizations between dog and wolf and they have a particular attitude to plunder the domestic livestock, so that, a meaningful proportion of the damages attributed to the wolf is work instead of dogs rinselvatichiti. The correct perception of the phenomenon randagismo is a fundamental footstep to bring back the managerial discussion in its real terms. To such intention, the recent activity of control, within the realization of the canine registry, of the Forest Body of Saint Fiora is showing the foundation of our theses, since this has been enough to make to drastically lower the aggressions.

Then we allow to lose the tones from hunting to the witches that don't help certain to resolve the problem risking to flow in illegal interventions of persecution to the wolf. And' important instead to loosen the tensions to local level, to first of all analyze the problem from a scientific base, from which to draw the greatest number of data and possible information to effect the most opportune strategy. To also invite to the summits the representatives of the environmental world, that are besides carriers of diffused affairs, would serve perhaps to know other aspects of the problem and to use of further experiences matured by the WWF on the wolf.

Angel Properzi

Responsible provincial WWF