Under an ambitious conservation plan, 60 Mesola red deer are being moved from northern Italy to Calabria, where it is hoped they will thrive and multiply
in Calabria is one of the key steps of Operazione Cervo Italico – Operation Italian Deer – aimed at saving the deer from extinction.of the Italian peninsula. It once thrived in the interconnected forests that covered the country’s north, but centuries of hunting and habitat destruction almost eradicated it. Only a handful of deer survived in Mesola Wood, which was spared from being converted to farmland, unlike much of the Po valley.
It has, however, taken 10 years for Operation Italian Deer to get off the ground. “It [the deer] received much less recognition than other Italian iconic subspecies, such as the Marsican brown bear or the Apennine chamois,” says Giovanni Nobili of the Carabinieri’s biodiversity department. The first 20 were moved in March, with the rest to follow over the next couple of years. “This will allow us to monitor the evolution of the operation, and to adapt to all the issues we will encounter,” says Sandro Nicoloso, head of the team from the wildlife organisation Dream Italia, which is conducting the capture, transport and release of the deer.The fittest male and females are identified in Mesola before being shot with a tranquilliser dart gun.
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