Ecologistas en Acción condemned that the decrease in the number of male deer in the Palentina Mountain Natural Park (Castilla y León) affects the estrus period (the mating period of this species, characteristic of the animals’ bellowing). This period of courtship with animals, so popular and well known in Palencia and its neighboring provinces, was a reference a few decades ago, but today it becomes “little more than testimony”.
In a statement, the association reminds us that responsibility for the management of game species such as deer rests solely with the Junta de Castilla y León in the Regional Environmental Service, which, as in most cases, “continues to look the other way, as if nothing is happening.”
“The majority of technicians and field personnel continue to remain unwilling to see what is happening, attributing this decline to diseases, heavy snowfalls that may have affected some years like 2015 but have largely been overcome, and others blame wolves, which will be responsible for everything that is happening in rural areas “But no one is addressing the root cause of the species’ decline: indiscriminate legal and poaching.”
Similarly, they blame this result on decades of “horrible management” of the Natural Park and the ‘Fuentes Carrionas’ Regional Game Reserve, as well as the hunting of the best specimens for many years and in many cases while they are still in their infancy. which meant “an obvious and enormous decline in quality”.
In another part of the Natural Park, in the Private Game Reserves, hunting seals continue to be provided by the Junta de Castilla y León “in quantities much higher than the availability of deer and without any control”; This is a common situation. All species that can be killed with the seal are killed.
“There are no signs of this trend changing as long as the outdated policies of the Regional Environmental Service continue to be implemented,” they add, accusing active tourism companies of not wanting to speak out against those who have authorized them to continue operating. activity.
Therefore, Ecologistas en Acción considers that “it will be difficult for uniformity to return to the show as before, and it will be difficult to maintain a healthy, stable population of deer with good quantity and quality parameters in the Natural Park.” “Assuming there is a fundamental ecological factor in ecosystems, they conclude that achieving this requires a drastic reduction in hunting and elimination of monotony.
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Contact address of the environmental department:krisclimatica@prensaiberica.es
Source: Informacion
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