Un cane dorato si aggira per l’Europa
by Eliante (news)
Un’iniziativa di studio e divulgazione a Milano sull’espansione dello Sciacallo dorato.
27 maggio 2023, ore 17:00
Via San Vittore 49, Milano
Ingresso libero
Golden Jackal informal study group in Europe
27 maggio 2023, ore 17:00
Via San Vittore 49, Milano
Ingresso libero
New events on the horizon after the 3rd International Jackal Symposium in Gödöllő, Hungary (here) and the World Jackal Day in Austria (here)
Since 1984 when jackals were reported in Italy and Romania, their population reached, officially, a total number of 28.871 individuals in Romania while the Italian population is less than 800-1.200 individuals.
Why? Which is the difference?
Secția de Ecologie a ONG Crispus Sibiu, WWF România, Institutul de Cercetări Biologice Cluj-Napoca și ACDB Vrancea cu sprijinul Facultății de Biologie și Geologie, Secția Ecologie Sistemică și Conservare (Universitatea Babeș-Bolyai) și al Facultății de Medicină Veterinară (Universitatea de Științe Agricole și Medicină Veterinară Cluj-Napoca) organizează:
PRIMUL COLOCVIU NAȚIONAL DEDICAT SPECIEI DE ȘACAL AURIU ÎN ROMÂNIA
FIRST NATIONAL GOLDEN JACKAL (Canis aureus, L.1758) COLLOQUIUM IN ROMANIA
“Șacalul auriu – parazitologie, monitorizare și management în România”
“The Golden Jackal in Romania – parasitology, monitoring and lethal management.”
RO: Reuniunea va avea loc la Sediul Institutului de Cercetări Biologice, Strada Republicii Nr 48, Cod Postal 400015, în ziua de 8 mai 2023 la ora 16:30, Locuri limitate. Înscrieri de alte prezentări, cu durată de maxim 10 minute, se primesc până la data de 4 mai prin email.
EN: The meeting takes place at The Institute of Biological Research (Address: Republicii Street 48, Cluj-Napoca, Romania). Other presentations (no more than 10 minutes) can be submitted until Thursday, 4th of May 2023 to the following email addresses: crispusngosibiu(at)gmail.com or cpapp(at)wwfdcp.ro. Limited places.
Responsabili eveniment: Ovidiu-Constantin Banea (Crispus Sibiu) și Cristian-Remus Papp (ICB, UBB, WWF) Foto: Alexandra Ion
"Venerdì 12 maggio 2023, ore 20:30 si svolgerà la conferenza "Sciacallo dorato. Una possibile convivenza" presso il Centro Sociale "Aldo Moro" a Carbonera. Relatori dott. Luca Lapini, zoologo, Sezione Zoologica del Museo Friulano di Storia Naturale di Udine e dott. Luca Zanchettin, tecnico ed educatore ambientale presso l'Associazione Naturalistica Lorenzoni."
The last pulsation and dispersal of the golden jackal from the known range of the southeastern part of the Balkan Peninsula started in the 50s and in 1984, the first jackals were recorded in Italy and Romania.
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Rome, 7 December 2021 – Unstoppable, the journey of the golden jackal in Italy.
"The Canis aureus left on a distant day dal Gange, after 40 years in our country he arrived in Tuscany. The one of Montemurlo (Prato) it’s just the latest report. The ‘street sweeper’ who eats everything is ‘undermining’ his most direct opponent, the wolf."
Text Source: here, Italy24News
Video Source: here La RepubblicaLetter from Felix Böcker, M.Sc.
FVA Wildlife Institute, Freiburg
GOJAGE representative in Germany
"We got pictures from a photographer ... I checked the area to confirm the origin... I took my dog with me and she found 4 scats. I installed some camera traps as well. The cameras confirmed the cub. The genetic analysis of all scats resulted in jackal as well. In two of the four scats, the genotyping was successful as well and we identified two animals. A few days later we took genetic samples from a dead sheep (still dead for several days, thus proof for the use of the body but not for being killed) which showed another specimen. Last week my dog found another scat over there which resulted in the fourth specimen. We now have at least 4 jackals and three of them seem to be the pubs of the fourth animal, which is the father (genetically)."
This is a brief resume of what occurred from the 1st of October until the 26th of November 2021.
As presented in a note by the Ministry of Environment (here).
GOJAGE Journal Club
by Ovidiu Banea
A very interesting study describing the genetic structure of the golden jackal population in Slovenia was performed by Astrid Vik Stronen, Kristijan Tomljanović, Hubert Potočnik, and other researchers from Hungary, Austria, Croatia, and Serbia. It was published recently in Global Ecology and Conservation (Source: here).
Tissue samples were collected from Slovenia (n =48), Croatia (n =53), Serbia (n =29), and Hungary (n =22) over the past 15 years. Thirteen samples from Slovenia were analysed from saliva.
It was found that a possible origin of recent jackal dispersion in Slovenia corresponds to sources from Serbia and Hungary and not to the Dalmatian cluster as it was hypothesized by the authors. Some results suggested a third cluster centered in northern Hungary.
The study is crucial to understand the golden jackal population movement pattern in Central Europe and new data from the Eastern countries would be of great interest to further explore the species biogeography in Europe.
Authors: "However, investigation of samples collected south and east of our study area will be required to obtain a better picture of gene flow within the Balkans and beyond, including the Caucasus (Shakarashvili et al., 2020), and can help determine the main routes of jackal range expansion across Europe."
by Ovidiu C. Banea
Between 31st of March 2021 and 5th of April 2021 took place in Romania a bioacoustic monitoring reasearch, BMR2021 in ecological systems specific to golden jackal located in two hunting terrains from western and eastern parts of Romania (FV 2 Cheglevici, Timis county and FV 28 Gura Dobrogei, Constanta county) and in two critical areas in Danube Delta (Caraorman and Letea martime levees) where the density is controlled regularly by Crispus NGO Sibiu.
Credit: RoHilac 2021 © Ovidiu C. Banea & Cosmin A. Țâru
Photos in detail: Carlo Galliani and Janesz Tarman
Letea 4 aprilie 2021, video credit: Ovidiu C. Banea si Cosmin A. Țâru
Initiativa de proiect RoHilac 2021-2024 (Aici)