Hunters

Associazione Cacciatori Trentini has been identified by the Autonomous Province of Trento as the most representative hunter association at the local scale. For this reason, it has been delegated to the direct management of the three main ungulate species of the province (red deer, roe deer and chamois). Beside managing hunting activities, the association also carries out surveys and monitoring of fauna species, large carnivores included. It also supports research projects and environment protection activities in collaboration with the Autonomous Province of Trento and other local institutions. In addition, it supports health monitoring activities, provides support in case of natural disasters, and performs restoration and improvement interventions of natural habitats. To efficiently fulfill such goals, the association counts on qualified and graduated wildlife technicians and on personnel responsible for hunting surveillance, faunistic census and other technical tasks. In the context of the Stewardship Program, the association is interested in taking active part in the wolf population monitoring at the local scale, in promoting a correct information on the wolf to hunters, and to participate in a study to understand predator-prey dynamics.

Bohinjska Bistrica hunting club was founded in 1946 and has 44 members. The hunting ground is highly mountainous, ranging from 500 to 1.800 m above sea level, and measures 4.500 ha in size. It is located on the periphery of the Triglav National Park in the municipality of Bohinj. The hunting ground manages, among others, roe deer, red deer, chamois, and mouflon, occasionally even wild boar is present. Of the large carnivores, lynx and wolf are newly arrived species with constant presence, and occasionally also brown bear wanders through the area. In addition to the management of the game populations in the hunting area and the maintenance of hunting surveillance, the hunting club also collaborates with research and expert institutions to monitor the status of the wolf and lynx populations in Slovenia, thus contributing to a better understanding of these populations in the Alpine region. The members of the hunting club cooperate well with the neighbouring hunting clubs in the municipality of Bohinj, namely the hunting clubs Nomenj – Gorjuše and Stara Fužina. This cooperation is organized under the slogan “Hunters of Bohinj” and includes, among other things, an annual joint hunt and, yet for more than 30 years, the organization of a hunting-nature-conservation day “Hunting Day” for pupils of the 5th grade of Primary school.

The Comprensorio Alpino is legally a private association with public aims for the wildlife and hunting management of a part of the provincial territory. Specifically, the Comprensorio Alpino CN5 is located in the Pesio, Vermenagna and Gesso Valleys. The activities of CACN5, according to Law no. 157 of 11th February 1992 and Regional Law no. 70 of 4th September 1996, consist in the management of hunters’ admission procedures, the organisation of census activities for both huntable and non-huntable species, the determination and implementation of wildlife repopulation plans, the assessment and settlement of damage to agricultural crops caused by wildlife, the proposal and regulation of plans for the culling of particular species of fauna.