Alone, a baby mouflon wanders crying around the island of Giglio. It is not clear whether the mother is among the mouflons killed by the Tuscan Archipelago Park or among those captured and moved to the continent last week. Even if Gigliola, as the islanders baptized her in honor of the island on which she was born and from which the Park wants to eradicate her dead or alive, should she survive the winter, her life will not be safe.
“Contrary to the misleading statements made by some politicians and associations two weeks ago, only a few mouflons will be ‘saved’, as the culls have been temporarily suspended, but not revoked,” say the environmental associations.
«Alone and at the gates of winter, she will hardly see spring without her mother, probably killed on November 24th or captured and moved to the continent last week – explains the veterinarian Massimo Vacchetta -. Mouflon babies remain close and dependent on their mothers for a long time, even many months after weaning ».
“We therefore ask that the killing of mouflons be completely revoked, as well as their translocations, since the story of Gigliola highlights the complexity of the ethical dimension of this type of action. The fact that the project has been criticized by many scientists, including the National Order of Biologists, cannot therefore avoid the ethical aspect in favor of scientific considerations when it is precisely the scientific basis of the project that is being questioned. in a statement released by the Dog Life Association, the Network of free animal sanctuaries and the hedgehog recovery center ‘La ninna’ -. There are completely feasible and economic alternatives to the eradication of the mouflon, whether by culling or translocation, and it is these alternatives that we want to be able to explore both with the beneficiaries of the Life project and with the institutions that financed it. The Life LetsGoGiglio project provides for the possibility of applying a variant during construction and this is exactly what we will continue to support. That is, that we can and must change ».
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