and make 2017 end of August that
period of the year in which it still does
quite hot but the days are
shorten and so it can happen
surprise from the dark while if still
on the path that day I left
very soon to take a long ride in
solitary and around the massif
mountainous of the marguareis in the Alps
liguri piedmont south western
another beautiful floor full of
caves and indeed along the paths
meeting of friends awake and one
chat a beer via the other
start again that afternoon and done
so I find myself at 2000 meters of altitude
at the beginning of the last descent that by now
at dusk that uncertain hour that i
Frenchmen over the border call
anguish and lu between dog and wolf because with
the light so dim becomes difficult
clearly distinguish the Belluno silhouette
from the silhouette of the other
Well, I’m almost ten o’clock in the evening
alone I am in the upper valley pesio here
at the beginning of the 90s it was
documented the first wolf pack
of the Alps that pop was never part
of the furniture I make and started to
go down and turn on the front light
because we do not see an accident anymore
and start thinking about this period
of the year maybe the puppies are already in
ride with dad and mom there is everything
the azonzo herd and my step
imperceptibly increases then I swear to me
effort
I would like to think of something else instead
start to imagine
here are the guards now on the other
side they start to howl they do as well
this
and these, in answer, I find myself
exactly in the middle and started running
reaching the photonic speed
and it is at that point that I see them two eyes
yellow ones that follow me
now he is in the mountains an anthropologist
alpine guide naturalistic c vivaci
I often work with clients
or alone
moreover I worked four years on
a project related to communication on
loops and large carnivores me are
heard to explain many times by
experts that the wolf does not exchange for us
prey if his presence gives us
annoyance just make a little noise and
he will leave me time to
have repeated it a lot of times e
when I can not take it anymore
stalked I block migiro scream with one
I must also have shaken my arms
and I just have time to see the
eyes astonished by a fox that me
look before the story nature have
thought Fiumani worsen this is
made the final test of a long series
of lessons that the wild had me
given for months without me
I already saw the wild ones
because right here right in the heart
Western Europe in this
continent in the continent that are the
alps in place for a century a
renaturation process or
let’s call it rinselvatichito there we are
only now realizing why it becomes
striking the most obvious suspect ie
the return of wild herbivores e
carnivores prey and predators will now have to
somewhere in the woods behind the house
it can be said hic sunt leones anzi xd
vulpes service Surus wolves are a lot
other
each species our history
detail of extinction and return
modalities of peculiar expansions but
they all arrived to stay all there
they put in difficulty all offer us
an opportunity because the wild ones in
general and large carnivores in
particular are masters boogie with the
their presence teach us something that
we forgot but didactic and
traumatic contents are difficult to
to digest but from this lesson depends
not just the future of the wild
on the Alps but also that of ours
species on earth but think
we say that the wild are back
on the Alps because they were there already
otherwise they would have been limited to
arrive
and instead there was a long time
lasted centuries in which men animals
they coexisted on the Alps peacefully but
not even by mistake it was rather one
state of permanent conflict a
contend for limited resources and spaces
reduced an ecological niche
definitely not the easiest one
alpine an anthill this was the Alps
At the end of the nineteenth century
it is teeming with people on the slopes to the
sun even on those in the shade on
those of the sweetest slopes and those
steeper, more rocky was a mountain
inhabited cultivated pasture and deforested
we were everywhere but it was not enough for us
be at the top of the pyramid
ecological we also wanted them to be the
unique to occupy this position
privileged and so we have eliminated the
competition in particular
superpredatori we did out almost
everywhere leading them to the brim
of extinction and a step further
wolves bears win but also faine swings
owls owls to those gips is a massacre for
need for hunger we put in
all possible prey therefore
leading to extinction many
deer areas deer wild boar deer
ibexes chamois
sorry and then
what happens in 1921 that happens
that nobody would have expected
1921
in that year the last wolf is killed
of the western Alps and for a curious one
coincidence precisely in that year happens
the unexpected right at that time there
we go and we do it in bulk
let’s quickly do not mess up
people downstream is evident above all
in the bluest areas you can see someone
which holds the Trentino and better
alto adige have staff remain more
linked to and matt to the earth but elsewhere
where the high lands are more difficult to
reach to grow where they make of
less where their white ski is not
arrives in time to replace the gold
milk white
here is the mountain garden this
the same picture a century later
turns into less than a century becomes
an uninhabited green jungle without more
cows without more people this too is
the same place
here’s what it gets but this jungle
uninhabited and empty green of people but
it is filled by useful animal species
for hunting and here you create one
confusion between those who returned
of course and who has been
reported on the Alps some species like
roe deer like deer like waste
with mika washi they have been reported to
hunting purpose the ibex only for kings
he could have chased someone else like him
instead he wins it or the bearded vulture e
dressed in the mere Alps considered as
a very important piece
of the Alpine ecosystem and then it was
reported , if anything, they are instinct of the
everything but his population risked
extinction and had external help
with animals coming from abroad and
someone else had disappeared from the Alps
and she came back doing it all by herself
this is the wolf his and the adventure
perhaps more epic, more exciting because
the wolves who have returned to the Alps are
the descendants of the 100 survivors
survivors in the
southern central Apennines are
come back alone because free wolf
professional the VAT number does not have
need a little help he is not a water
cheta like the lynx him
expansion has it in the DNA
exactly like us but we can live together
today on the alps where they are inhabited by the
large carnivores
but it is only our question in the meantime
because the large carnivores do not
they formalize they are enduring us
intolerant to them now
imagine a vallelunga 80 km
inhabited by 90,000 people traveled in the
sense of the length of the road
state of international interest from
a provincial highway from a highway
railway is threatened by an ad line
high speed
well it exists is the valley of susa
here the first wolves have arrived twenty years
ago and today have not yet found one
reason that if one to leave well
since we find them among our feet
it is perhaps worth asking why
these animals give us so much trouble
because when one speaks in particular of
wolf and bear immediately raise the tones of the
speech get turned on it sets it aside
logic ranks for or against almost
they were a football team without a real one
because of course there is the annoyance that
objective that caused by real damages
to mountain agriculture in part
foreseeable in part
compensated but be careful because there is
of the other there is the annoyance that much
less obvious than generated by
imaginary machine that starts to
grind as soon as a large carnivore
peeps around our house
or let’s face larger and more
carnivores is not that they are expression
just happy that bear apart from him
others think of the wolf the jackal are
also half-notches
but this expression is large carnivores
immediately evokes a huge mass
obscure dangerous because
clearly the evoked meat is ours
and patience if the statistics tell us
then that many
to get hurt a lot by driving the
car having the accident we will continue
to use the car just in return
we discover with large carnivores is back
in the neighborhood of our house
let’s go for a walk in the woods and there
we all hear unarmed red riding hood
and scared and with fear you do not
jokes
of opposite sign but equally unfounded
and the all-citizen enthusiasm for i
large carnivores that are seen as
symbols of freedom of a nature
wild and pristine
or like cute animals
cuddly to be protected at all costs
but we know he has seen from afar on
cities and large carnivores are always gods
sympathizers most founded was esteem that i
Our ancestors hunters had for the
wild strong skilled colleagues
efficient capable but since when we are
become settled farmers
especially farmers here is the big ones
carnivores have lost all theirs
charm to become on a threat is
a nuisance the Middle Ages I took me
of its appioppando to these animals
all sorts of negative epithets are
fierce are evil are bad
evil
already that there are also the worlds of
everything that frightens us
we try to laugh to exorcise
this fear and then the wolf from the
ancient fable the modern one becomes it
stupid the coward the coward the greedy
the fool and we do not want to laugh
of the clumsy bear and if it is still not enough a
take care of the fear we make it become
the puppet in the hands of children i
super predators are mostly animals
super symbolized but there’s more
because neither the bear nor the wolf is forgiven
to have violated the biggest taboo
that of killing a person
and patience if this episode occurs
in a very distant past in time in
completely different contexts
because fear does not fall into prescription
at most he falls asleep ready to
awaken the collective unconscious
where you buy animals and always sewed
on a sign
less is this and this sign is good
less on large carnivores and a fact
important because we are animals
symbolic and read the reality that
we have before us
through the lenses of our culture
so when we look at a wolf a bear
in reality we see all that
we sewed him in the course of the
Journalists and politicians often stay there
take advantage of this magnetic charisma
gloomy of the great carnivores
but if we even learned how to
exploit its fascination and discomfort
we have not yet learned to struggle
learn the deepest lesson that
these animals have to give us
because the wild in general the big ones
carnivores
in particular they are many masters with the
their presence teach us something that
we have forgotten that we are animals
among the animals they do it by putting ourselves in the
roles more uncomfortable that of prey there
they succeed through something ancient and
as precious as fear they put us back
in our place of the ecosystem
letting us touch the
meaning of the word limit there
remember that the forest is not our home
that when we go for a walk
we accept to submit to laws
different from human ones for this one
bust with the wolf is more than a forest
without the wolf it is a mountain with a bear
a mountain higher than a mountain
which is deprived of it because in this way the
mountain ceases to be a postcard
reassuring and becomes an environment again
shared where we come back to be
fellow rivals accomplices brothers
believe that you are above the world
natural led us straight to the
catastrophe understand and be part of it and
the first step in the opposite direction
the initial story that
meeting
the combing fox was for me the
final text the opportunity after having
studied a lot on the books of living
an experience on my skin
a kind of great lighting
carnivores are back on the Alps for
who made them room
abandoning them now our turn of
widen the horizons and understand that
an integral ecosystem of all his
parts is a healthier and more ecosystem
the big trucks are vital and they put us in
crisis because they crack ours
presumption of omnipotence
our desire to feel safe and
masters
wherever our conviction extracts
beyond and above the natural world
but we will accept the challenge of the
limit that the large carnivores are
come to launch right here on these
very popular mountains to keep the
large carnivores is a political choice is
a huge effort is a lesson of
humility and it is a great opportunity
thank you
period of the year in which it still does
quite hot but the days are
shorten and so it can happen
surprise from the dark while if still
on the path that day I left
very soon to take a long ride in
solitary and around the massif
mountainous of the marguareis in the Alps
liguri piedmont south western
another beautiful floor full of
caves and indeed along the paths
meeting of friends awake and one
chat a beer via the other
start again that afternoon and done
so I find myself at 2000 meters of altitude
at the beginning of the last descent that by now
at dusk that uncertain hour that i
Frenchmen over the border call
anguish and lu between dog and wolf because with
the light so dim becomes difficult
clearly distinguish the Belluno silhouette
from the silhouette of the other
Well, I’m almost ten o’clock in the evening
alone I am in the upper valley pesio here
at the beginning of the 90s it was
documented the first wolf pack
of the Alps that pop was never part
of the furniture I make and started to
go down and turn on the front light
because we do not see an accident anymore
and start thinking about this period
of the year maybe the puppies are already in
ride with dad and mom there is everything
the azonzo herd and my step
imperceptibly increases then I swear to me
effort
I would like to think of something else instead
start to imagine
here are the guards now on the other
side they start to howl they do as well
this
and these, in answer, I find myself
exactly in the middle and started running
reaching the photonic speed
and it is at that point that I see them two eyes
yellow ones that follow me
now he is in the mountains an anthropologist
alpine guide naturalistic c vivaci
I often work with clients
or alone
moreover I worked four years on
a project related to communication on
loops and large carnivores me are
heard to explain many times by
experts that the wolf does not exchange for us
prey if his presence gives us
annoyance just make a little noise and
he will leave me time to
have repeated it a lot of times e
when I can not take it anymore
stalked I block migiro scream with one
I must also have shaken my arms
and I just have time to see the
eyes astonished by a fox that me
look before the story nature have
thought Fiumani worsen this is
made the final test of a long series
of lessons that the wild had me
given for months without me
I already saw the wild ones
because right here right in the heart
Western Europe in this
continent in the continent that are the
alps in place for a century a
renaturation process or
let’s call it rinselvatichito there we are
only now realizing why it becomes
striking the most obvious suspect ie
the return of wild herbivores e
carnivores prey and predators will now have to
somewhere in the woods behind the house
it can be said hic sunt leones anzi xd
vulpes service Surus wolves are a lot
other
each species our history
detail of extinction and return
modalities of peculiar expansions but
they all arrived to stay all there
they put in difficulty all offer us
an opportunity because the wild ones in
general and large carnivores in
particular are masters boogie with the
their presence teach us something that
we forgot but didactic and
traumatic contents are difficult to
to digest but from this lesson depends
not just the future of the wild
on the Alps but also that of ours
species on earth but think
we say that the wild are back
on the Alps because they were there already
otherwise they would have been limited to
arrive
and instead there was a long time
lasted centuries in which men animals
they coexisted on the Alps peacefully but
not even by mistake it was rather one
state of permanent conflict a
contend for limited resources and spaces
reduced an ecological niche
definitely not the easiest one
alpine an anthill this was the Alps
At the end of the nineteenth century
it is teeming with people on the slopes to the
sun even on those in the shade on
those of the sweetest slopes and those
steeper, more rocky was a mountain
inhabited cultivated pasture and deforested
we were everywhere but it was not enough for us
be at the top of the pyramid
ecological we also wanted them to be the
unique to occupy this position
privileged and so we have eliminated the
competition in particular
superpredatori we did out almost
everywhere leading them to the brim
of extinction and a step further
wolves bears win but also faine swings
owls owls to those gips is a massacre for
need for hunger we put in
all possible prey therefore
leading to extinction many
deer areas deer wild boar deer
ibexes chamois
sorry and then
what happens in 1921 that happens
that nobody would have expected
1921
in that year the last wolf is killed
of the western Alps and for a curious one
coincidence precisely in that year happens
the unexpected right at that time there
we go and we do it in bulk
let’s quickly do not mess up
people downstream is evident above all
in the bluest areas you can see someone
which holds the Trentino and better
alto adige have staff remain more
linked to and matt to the earth but elsewhere
where the high lands are more difficult to
reach to grow where they make of
less where their white ski is not
arrives in time to replace the gold
milk white
here is the mountain garden this
the same picture a century later
turns into less than a century becomes
an uninhabited green jungle without more
cows without more people this too is
the same place
here’s what it gets but this jungle
uninhabited and empty green of people but
it is filled by useful animal species
for hunting and here you create one
confusion between those who returned
of course and who has been
reported on the Alps some species like
roe deer like deer like waste
with mika washi they have been reported to
hunting purpose the ibex only for kings
he could have chased someone else like him
instead he wins it or the bearded vulture e
dressed in the mere Alps considered as
a very important piece
of the Alpine ecosystem and then it was
reported , if anything, they are instinct of the
everything but his population risked
extinction and had external help
with animals coming from abroad and
someone else had disappeared from the Alps
and she came back doing it all by herself
this is the wolf his and the adventure
perhaps more epic, more exciting because
the wolves who have returned to the Alps are
the descendants of the 100 survivors
survivors in the
southern central Apennines are
come back alone because free wolf
professional the VAT number does not have
need a little help he is not a water
cheta like the lynx him
expansion has it in the DNA
exactly like us but we can live together
today on the alps where they are inhabited by the
large carnivores
but it is only our question in the meantime
because the large carnivores do not
they formalize they are enduring us
intolerant to them now
imagine a vallelunga 80 km
inhabited by 90,000 people traveled in the
sense of the length of the road
state of international interest from
a provincial highway from a highway
railway is threatened by an ad line
high speed
well it exists is the valley of susa
here the first wolves have arrived twenty years
ago and today have not yet found one
reason that if one to leave well
since we find them among our feet
it is perhaps worth asking why
these animals give us so much trouble
because when one speaks in particular of
wolf and bear immediately raise the tones of the
speech get turned on it sets it aside
logic ranks for or against almost
they were a football team without a real one
because of course there is the annoyance that
objective that caused by real damages
to mountain agriculture in part
foreseeable in part
compensated but be careful because there is
of the other there is the annoyance that much
less obvious than generated by
imaginary machine that starts to
grind as soon as a large carnivore
peeps around our house
or let’s face larger and more
carnivores is not that they are expression
just happy that bear apart from him
others think of the wolf the jackal are
also half-notches
but this expression is large carnivores
immediately evokes a huge mass
obscure dangerous because
clearly the evoked meat is ours
and patience if the statistics tell us
then that many
to get hurt a lot by driving the
car having the accident we will continue
to use the car just in return
we discover with large carnivores is back
in the neighborhood of our house
let’s go for a walk in the woods and there
we all hear unarmed red riding hood
and scared and with fear you do not
jokes
of opposite sign but equally unfounded
and the all-citizen enthusiasm for i
large carnivores that are seen as
symbols of freedom of a nature
wild and pristine
or like cute animals
cuddly to be protected at all costs
but we know he has seen from afar on
cities and large carnivores are always gods
sympathizers most founded was esteem that i
Our ancestors hunters had for the
wild strong skilled colleagues
efficient capable but since when we are
become settled farmers
especially farmers here is the big ones
carnivores have lost all theirs
charm to become on a threat is
a nuisance the Middle Ages I took me
of its appioppando to these animals
all sorts of negative epithets are
fierce are evil are bad
evil
already that there are also the worlds of
everything that frightens us
we try to laugh to exorcise
this fear and then the wolf from the
ancient fable the modern one becomes it
stupid the coward the coward the greedy
the fool and we do not want to laugh
of the clumsy bear and if it is still not enough a
take care of the fear we make it become
the puppet in the hands of children i
super predators are mostly animals
super symbolized but there’s more
because neither the bear nor the wolf is forgiven
to have violated the biggest taboo
that of killing a person
and patience if this episode occurs
in a very distant past in time in
completely different contexts
because fear does not fall into prescription
at most he falls asleep ready to
awaken the collective unconscious
where you buy animals and always sewed
on a sign
less is this and this sign is good
less on large carnivores and a fact
important because we are animals
symbolic and read the reality that
we have before us
through the lenses of our culture
so when we look at a wolf a bear
in reality we see all that
we sewed him in the course of the
Journalists and politicians often stay there
take advantage of this magnetic charisma
gloomy of the great carnivores
but if we even learned how to
exploit its fascination and discomfort
we have not yet learned to struggle
learn the deepest lesson that
these animals have to give us
because the wild in general the big ones
carnivores
in particular they are many masters with the
their presence teach us something that
we have forgotten that we are animals
among the animals they do it by putting ourselves in the
roles more uncomfortable that of prey there
they succeed through something ancient and
as precious as fear they put us back
in our place of the ecosystem
letting us touch the
meaning of the word limit there
remember that the forest is not our home
that when we go for a walk
we accept to submit to laws
different from human ones for this one
bust with the wolf is more than a forest
without the wolf it is a mountain with a bear
a mountain higher than a mountain
which is deprived of it because in this way the
mountain ceases to be a postcard
reassuring and becomes an environment again
shared where we come back to be
fellow rivals accomplices brothers
believe that you are above the world
natural led us straight to the
catastrophe understand and be part of it and
the first step in the opposite direction
the initial story that
meeting
the combing fox was for me the
final text the opportunity after having
studied a lot on the books of living
an experience on my skin
a kind of great lighting
carnivores are back on the Alps for
who made them room
abandoning them now our turn of
widen the horizons and understand that
an integral ecosystem of all his
parts is a healthier and more ecosystem
the big trucks are vital and they put us in
crisis because they crack ours
presumption of omnipotence
our desire to feel safe and
masters
wherever our conviction extracts
beyond and above the natural world
but we will accept the challenge of the
limit that the large carnivores are
come to launch right here on these
very popular mountains to keep the
large carnivores is a political choice is
a huge effort is a lesson of
humility and it is a great opportunity
thank you
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