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In Valle d'Aosta, a request has been made for the reopening of ibex hunting

A motion on this topic was made public by regional councilor Ganis (Lega)
Simone Ricci di Simone Ricci May 4, 2024 in latest Reading time: 1 reading time


Explicit request

Reopening of the hunting area ibex in the Aosta Valley. This is the explicit request of the League through the regional councilor Christian Ganis, who made public a motion that refers to the ungulate and the territory of the northern region. What are the specific reasons?


Management measures

At European level, according to the Habitats Directive, the ibex is, like the Alpine chamois, the ibex is a "species of community interest whose collection from the wild and whose exploitation could be the subject of management measures" (see Annex V) and which therefore Member States can adopt exploitation measures as long as they are always compatible with its satisfactory conservation status, through the introduction of management plans.

Ibex Project

Furthermore, the National Union of Alpine Hunters (UNCZA) has recently promoted a study called "Ibex Project" which brings together all the studies promoted in recent years in our country on the Capra Ibex species. From the pages of the study it emerges that the ibex is a species now widely spread in the Alps, where more than 50.000 animals have been registered, of which 15.000 on the Italian side, numbers that justify the start of hunting management of the species.

Italy is twice as expensive as Austria or Slovenia for hunting.

I bet they want $50,000 for an ibex.

nothing can beat the new prices made by the swiss.

always good to have different options for hunting alpine ibex ...

I've been to Valle D'Aosta several times. The last time we went up into Gran Paradiso National Park - there were hundreds of Ibex and thousands of Chamois literally yards from the road, you could walk up within 20m of them.

There was a fair bit of snow above the tree line - the road went to 1800-2000m.

It seemed to me like gross over-population - had to be doing damage on the high pastures? I have seen similar in Austria from Chamois and Ibex. Contrast to here where the "if its brown its down" school of management applies....

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Originally posted by Kuwinda:
I've been to Valle D'Aosta several times. The last time we went up into Gran Paradiso National Park - there were hundreds of Ibex and thousands of Chamois literally yards from the road, you could walk up within 20m of them.

There was a fair bit of snow above the tree line - the road went to 1800-2000m.

It seemed to me like gross over-population - had to be doing damage on the high pastures? I have seen similar in Austria from Chamois and Ibex. Contrast to here where the "if its brown its down" school of management applies....

well soon the population will drop if there is not enough food and of course the other issues will come with illness it is a known issue for chamois ibex and wild sheep in europe. return o wolves may take very fast of the overpopulation.

I don't think the wolves will hurt the chamois much.

The ibex I don't know. Ibex are great climbers, but not fast runners. Chamois are both.

The wolves are destroying the population of mouflon. Any place that had a lot of mouflon, and now has wolves. Generally has no mouflon left.

True in Brandenburg state for sure. Here in Rheinland Pfalz we have quite a lot of mouflon and so far not a lot of wolves, our neighbors have wolves and most of their mouflon are gone.

I was in Tyrol two weeks ago. They are getting their first wolves, and already they are seeing mouflon start to vanish.

There was a wolf at the graveyard a few days before I got there.

He is werewolf him being in graveyard