The last "pest". The fox in the Italian law and in the actual hunting management / L'ultimo "nocivo". La Volpe nella legislazione italiana e nella pratica venatoria

• Main Author: Fabio Cassola
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Associazione Teriologica Italiana 1991
• Subjects: Fox control; Biology conservation; Hunting laws; Controllo della Volpe; Biologia della conservazione; Legislazione venatoria; Science; Q; Zoology; QL1-991; Sola; Lira; Lotta; Canis lupus
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.4404/hystrix-3.1-3963; https://doaj.org/article/16c2914a47ce4d659dc3e5821da94dba

Abstract In the general mentality as well as in the actual hunting management of the Italian territory, the fox Vulpes vulpes has largely replaced the wolf Canis lupus as the target of abnormal and injustified destructive efforts. By exagerating its predatory pressure on domestic and game animals, a...