Two young wolves shot in Ticino since December 1
Published: Monday, Feb 5th 2024, 13:10
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The Ticino Office for Hunting and Fishing has had two young wolves shot since the beginning of December. At the end of November, the Ticino cantonal government decreed that a maximum of five pups should be shot in three wolf packs in the southern canton.
This "proactive regulation" has now been successfully implemented, the Hunting and Fishing Office announced on Monday.
According to the report, two young wolves from two different packs were killed. Both were around six to eight months old.
In the case of the third cross-border wolf pack in the Onsernone Valley, regulation is proving more difficult, the communiqué continues. This pack stays almost exclusively on Italian territory and only makes short "excursions" into Ticino. This behavior made it almost impossible to predict the animals' movements.
The deployment of the gamekeepers for the entire operation - in particular for the increased monitoring - is estimated at 1050 working hours, the report concludes.
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