The allocation of half a million euros is good, but from the Region «still no concrete action to resolve problems relating to the situation of hunger and thirst that pushes specimens of Sardinian deer downstream, in search of water and food, with the risks that this entails both for the animals and for the safety of those traveling on the roads of Sardinia.
This is what the Legal Intervention Group in a note, where you take note of the «resolution no. 52/42 of 23 December 2024 – still not available for consultation – with which the Council allocated 500 thousand euros to support the “experimental interventions” of the Municipalities of Pula, Guspini, Siliqua, Arbus, Guspini, Laconi to prevent ungulates from crossing roads in their respective territories you were».
“A little money”, underlines the association, without however definitive measures. «And yet, there are now quite a few accidents involving specimens of Sardinian deer», underlines Grig. Which also summarizes the road accidents that have occurred in recent months at the deer’s home:
«On the night between 14 and 15 September 2024, a specimen of Sardinian deer was hit by a car along the state road n. 195 (km. 36,400), in the municipal area of Pula (CA). The Deer is dead, damage to the vehicle.” Again: «Similar accident, at the end of August 2024, on the new one SS n. 125 in the municipal area of Castiadas (ON). And the Sardinian deer, due to hunger and thirst, are now also arriving in the countryside of Quartu Sant’Elena, on the slopes of the Sette Fratelli massif.”
«The official data, communicated by the Department of Environmental Defense of the Autonomous Region of Sardinia – Nature Protection and Forestry Policies Service – continues the association – state that “that in 2023 the road accidents involving wildlife for which requests were received of compensation were 46 with deer or fallow deer in the territory of the municipality of Pula, in particular along the SS 195 between km 30 and km. 42”.
«Nevertheless – concludes the intervention group – it does not appear that low voltage electrified fences on the hill/mountain side have been set up (nor are they planned), as well as grasslands and small water reserves».
For this reason the association is once again calling for interventions: «First of all, high and robust fences, including low voltage electrified ones, along the main and secondary roads, the creation of grasslands and crops in clearings for wildlife, already financed with community funds , the creation of small water reserves in forest and scrub areas. Even simple initiatives, but with positive results, unlike the stale proposal – as innovative as a nativity scene – of the Sardinian deer culling plans put forward by some parts of the hunting world”.
(Unioneonline)
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