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Today we have with us two medical veterinarians of our city, Stefano Fabbri and Sara Diomedi. They deal with animals of affection, with affairs to warbs the local fauna and to them  we turn the following questions.

 

What kind of animals live in Terni?

Beginning with mammals, I would put at the begins of geological scale, talking about wild animals, the wolf that it is reintroduced in this period and numerically it is increasing in important way. Then the fox, the wild boar, that also him not having big natural enemies and being a prolific species, it's spreading in important way until to periphery of our city. Then the badger that is more rare, and the porcupine which increase recently. Considering the enviroment of our zone we can find the squirrel, the wild cat that is more rare but still important. Lowering with the size we can find the marten, and the weasels. Lately there has been an important increase of a species not autochtonus but is certanly in our city. Then the marten found recentely a suitable enviroment for it's development therefore we can found it in our woods or campaigns. This regard mammals.

The birds of our cities, of our countryside are numerous.

Amid the smaller swarms the type for excellence and the most important which was found 50-60 years ago is the grey partridge. It was very present numerically but in these last years due to the abandonment of the countryside and the transformation of the agriculture, from limited agriculture to intensive agriculture, caused that this species is disappearing.

The restoration work of certain areas that was abandoned from the point of view of crops, now grown then the partridge is present in conspicuous way.

Then we have the pheasants that are a fairly recent entry, since the 40s however they have found an environment very important here, in this area, not only in Terni, but also along the Apennines, in central Italy in general, but they are present in a conspicuously way in the Po Valley and on the islands. It is a non-native species but it found in our environment a big spread.

For others birds present in mountain areas there is the rock partridge, which suffers much less of human labor and agriculture and therefore adapts to certain climates and in certain environments which would seem unfavorable, but for she that environments aren’t unfavourable, naturally considering the marshy environment, there is a large population of cormorants that has adapted well to our area and these are the signs of the times are changing and of the evolution that undergoes our environment and that makes it possible for certain species to survive.

Still talking about birds are conspicuous presences of corvids, of crows and especially of magpies that live very well near to our cities and are very well adapted to those who are the environments where man lives, and especially magpies find large possibilities of life around our cities and in our cities.

Still talking about birds there is therefore a large population of migratory birds that pass here, there are many ducks in relation to wetlands, ducks that maybe come from Northern Europe, passing in our area, that stop here or find here the passing streets and then go into areas climatically more favorable.

Other birds are naturally reintroduced in this period, for example one of these is the red-legged partridge.

 

What do you do to protect them?

To protect needs them first of all to know them and therefore the thing most important it’s for me that every individual to take an interest to their environment fauna that surround us. There are groups of volunteers who take care of animals that belong to our lands and they bring them water and nutrients and there are other groups that deal with restocking and try to avoid those that are invading the territories of the animals that live in our land. They try to be less intrusive towards their spaces. Only in this way we can make sure that you maintain a balance between man and wild animals.

 

Are there dangerous or rather endangered animals?

Surely not dangerous! Perhaps the wolf is a little more prepared to create some problems. It was recently reintroduce, but until now, has never been a threat. What to do to protect them? Definitely it must ensure that the environment in which they live is as suitable as possible to allow them life, so to have food sufficiently and suitable because they can play. The cure is for the environment both our own and animals, and the most essential thing is to ensure that more and more abundant and less dangerous. In extension risk there is nobody except for numerically someone who isn’t present in an important way. Here man makes his active and fails to intervene, however, quite effectively to ensure that these species don’t just disappear permanently.