News on bears and wolf in the Trentino
Female with four cubs
The signals of bears were numerous both in the zone near Brenta (in
particular in the territories of Andalo, Molveno, S. Lorenzo in Banale, Stenico,
Ragoli, Montagne, val Meledrio, val val Brenta, val Algone, val di Tovel,
Sporminore, Sporeggio, Cunevo, Tuenno) and in the high Val di Non (Bresimo), on
Monte Bondone, in lower Bleggio and in Val Lagarina. During this month there
were the first sighting of this year, of females accompanied by their cubs born
in 2010; in particular a female with two cubs was seen in Val di Tovel and a
second female accompanied by four cubs in the Paganella zone. This last case,
with four new born, is to be considered an unusual event, never ascertained
before in Italy. The possible presence of one or two more females accompanied by
cubs born this year in the area of Val di Non and Val Rendena still remains in
wait of confirmation.
The radio collared male bear named MC in the first days
of the month made many displacements in the province of Trento (Folgaria,
Rovereto, Trambileno, Vallarsa) to then move to Veneto (Val Posina, Altipiano di
Asiago, e Lessinia). This individual, in Veneto, plundered, mostly to detriment
of donkeys.
Several damages possibly caused by bears, nearly exclusively to
the o detriment of bees, were recorded in Trentino as well (Val di Ledro,
Rendena, Bleggio Inferiore, Val di Non and Vallagarina). For what concernes the
animals out of the provincial territory we signal the discovery of foot-marks
and sightings also in the province of Brescia (Val Trompia and Val Camonica), in
the province of Sondrio (Val di Mello), and in the province of Bolzano.
Verified presence
of a wolf
In the month of april, and precisely on the 13th,
the supervisory staff of the Parco Naturale Adamello Brenta, engaged in
operations of faunistic monitoring, assisted by a forest ranger, discovered the
track on the snow of a big canide, in the north-east Brenta. Following the track
it was possible to collect some samples of urine in correspondence to the points
in which the animal executed an activity of "marking out". The organic samples
collected were submitted to genetic analyses by the side of the Istituto
Superiore per la Ricerca Ambientale (ISPRA) of Bologna. The results of the
analyses, recently reached, confirmed it to be a male exemplary of wolf,
belonging to the italian population (Canis lupus). It is probably a young
animal, in dispersion from the west central alpine arch, where from the nineties
a vital population with appenninic origins installed itself. After the 13th of
April there have been no other signals of tracks attributable to this exemplary.
The presence of an alive wolf, in province, was ascertained for the first time
after over 150 years from its disappearence and follows of a couple of years,
the discovery of the remains of the wolf in Val di Fiemme, whose origin,
genetically determined, was balcanic instead. Finally we must remind that the
phenomenon of natural expansion of the wolf from the western Alps brought in the
very last years to record the presence of single exemplaries also in the near
Lombardia, in Switzerland and in Austria.
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