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Members Youth Wilderness

 

AIW youth members ... share of 10 euro!

News. E 'formation of a new category of member AIW: for all young people under 20 and for college students (until completion of studies) the fee is € 10 and entitles you to receive regular news and documents the wilderness (as well a card, status and adhesive).

To pay the membership fee to:

Post Office Account No. 10494672 (made out to the Italian Association for Wilderness, 17013 Murialdo, Savona).

Ordinary Member (at least € 25.00 per year) *

Contributing Member (at least € 75.00 year)

honorary member (at least € 250.00 per year)
Partner & Supporter Guarantor (€ 125.00 per year) **

Formal member (at least € 10, 00 per year) ***

Youth Membership (at least € 10.00 per year) ***

* For institutions (government, institutions, associations, clubs, committees, etc.). share shall not be less five times the proportion of ordinary members , that is at least € 125.00 per year.

** Members Supporter and Guarantors shall pay an initial fee of € 150.00 (with 3 members who sign up free of charge), then they have an obligation to renew with the share of Contributing Member (€ 75,00) voluntarily portable to € 100.00 with free membership of a member. They form a "Council for the Wilderness" of the Executive Council. Membership entitles you to a pin in silver and gold logo with the Wilderness. The same right enjoyed by the Contributing Members who request them.

*** Formal Members and Youth Members are not entitled to vote at the Meeting, nor , first, to receive the socialist period, which will be sent to them, however, groups, clubs or sections of belonging. Formal Members will gain the right to vote in the Assembly and to receive regular social event supplement their registration fee making it equal to the Ordinary Members. The Youth Members shall cease to be regarded as such after the age of 20 years or the termination of the university during the school year, with the obligation to integrate their registration fee equal to making Ordinary Members.

The force of ideas is based on the number of people who share

JOIN AND HAVE BECOME

to support our success, to make them even yours, and to make them multiply.

Xavier De Marco, Director of National AIW

The Replacements Hental

PNA. Stray dogs, wolves, and compensate farmers

PRESS

the stray IN THE PARK OF ABRUZZO

COMMENT TO THE RESULTS OF RESEARCH

In recent days, the report is circulated on the Internet on a Research on stray dogs in the Abruzzo National Park, prepared by the technicians of the Park; research emerged, we have reason to believe the little known event with Bear attacked by a pack of dogs in December in the valley of Sagittarius (City of Villalago), on the edge of the National Park.

An exemplary report, which is based on official archival data on the damage to farmers repaid during the period 2004-2009, but also a report suffers from a fundamental premise, the premise that we can only consider "political" in the sense of protection policy of the Park, and which is given here: "From Data relating to compensation to be paid to farmers by the Park in past years clearly shows an exponential increase of the amounts paid, and this trend is not accompanied by either increase in the numbers of wild predators (primarily wolves) or by an increase in domestic in the composition of the diet of predators, as is clear from the droppings of wolves, which shows that the servants appear with relatively small percentages.

E 'well-known fact to all those who deal with wildlife that at least the presence of wolves has been steadily increasing, so that the Park Board last year have shown di 60 lupi nell’area del Parco (contro la decina, sì e no) del 1970. Sessanta Lupi che, per chi è a conoscenza dell’impatto predatorio di questi animali, non è cosa da sottovalutarsi, e rende ben comprensibile l’aumento esponenziale dei danni agli armenti domestici, essendo essi, nonostante l’aumentata presenza di cervi e cinghiali, sempre e comunque il punto più debole della catena alimentare. E ciò non concorda, ed è anzi in antitesi, con i risultati della ricerca!

Per quanto riguarda la presenza dei cani randagi o inselvatichiti, almeno lo scrivente può dichiarare che in trent’anni di assidua frequentazione delle montagne del Parco solo in 2 (due!) casi ha osservato cani in situazioni tali da poterli definire cani randagi o “inselvatichiti”. Nelle stesse relazioni del servizio di sorveglianza del Parco non credo esistano molte segnalazione di questi cani, che all’epoca della mia presenza nel Parco mai si parlava, perché mai ne venivano avvistati. E non c’è ragione di credere che dopo quell’epoca vi sia stato un boom di questi animali!

Non è con queste premesse che si fa chiarezza sul problema del rapporto tra Parco ed allevatori. Non è negando certe realtà per comodo e difesa “di principio” della fauna predatoria del Parco che si difende questa fauna. La verità dei fatti deve be the basis of any serious research, otherwise it is always altered by the simple fact of departure, which would affect all the others, and thus affect the whole research. Such research to be credible was first made by people super-partes and in any event, even if it proves true for the operators of a National Park should always rely on the principle that it is not saving on repayments that save bears, wolves and other predators, but ALWAYS pay the damages reported, whether they were caused by bears and wolves or dogs, because these reimbursements, even though "inflated" in some cases, must be seen as contributions towards activity essential to the survival of predators and the maintenance of biodiversity of pastures and forests of the park. Claim that they (farmers and pastoralists) to "pay" in fact for these continued not only unfair, it would also be undemocratic and illiberal.

Murialdo, January 15, 2011 ; THE SECRETARY-GENERAL

                                                            F.to Franco Zunino