Il bosco della Versiliana

31/05/2026

Numerose fioriture di Nannufaro in Versiliana
Averla piccola in canto. Arrivato in volo il maschio di Anatra sposa, la femmina sarà in cova?

29/12/2025

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Domenico Verducci WWF Alta Toscana – [email protected] Le invasioni biologiche, cioè l’espansione provocata dall’uomo di specie animali o vegetali al di fuori del loro areale di presenza natura…

29/12/2025

Amici dell'ex WWF LUCCA

04/10/2025

Nuove fioriture di Ninfea gialla e coppia di Anatra sposa. Sfalcio a tabula rasa sul fosso😡😡

16/05/2025

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46° Festival La Versiliana 16 luglio, ore 21.30 Teatro La Versiliana, Marina di Pietrasanta GIOVANNI STORTI e STEFANO MANCUSO in ALBERI Tutto quello che avreste voluto sapere ma non […]

08/03/2025

Oca in cova in Versiliana

25/08/2024

Speriamo sia vero
COVID-19 could accelerate the decline in recreational hunting: A natural experiment from Northern Italy
Jacopo Cerri Carmela Musto Marco Ferretti Marco Apollonio

Although many studies highlighted the potential of COVID-19 to reshape existing models of wildlife management, empirical research on this topic has been scarce, particularly in Europe. We investigated the potential of COVID-19 pandemic to accelerate the ongoing decline in an aging population of recreational hunters in Italy. Namely, we modelled spatiotemporal trends between 2011 and 2021 in the number of recreational hunters in 50 Italian provinces with a varying incidence of COVID-19, and temporally delayed waves of infection. Compared to projections from 2011–2019 data, we detected a lower number of hunters who enrolled for the hunting season, both in 2020 (14 provinces) and in 2021 (15 provinces). The provinces with the highest incidence of COVID-19 in the Lombardy and Emilia-Romagna regions were also those experiencing the most marked decrease in hunting participation. Our findings revealed that a wildlife management system based on recreational hunting can be rapidly destabilized by epidemics and their associated public health measures, particularly when the average age of hunters is high, like in Italy. Considered the high incidence attained by COVID-19 in many European countries, where hunters are pivotal for the management of large ungulates and where they were already declining before the pandemic, our findings call for further large-scale research about the impact of COVID-19 on hunting participation.
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