Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 19 ISSUE 3
Written by Cristian Mihai ENESCU

Truffle picking and hunting are two forest-related activities able to steer hot disputes over the forest sustainability. The reason is simple: hunting and truffle picking, at the same time and within the same forest, may cause deadly accidents. Across Europe, there are several countries with long tradition in picking truffles and hunting, such as Italy, France or Spain, but the legal framework regarding these doings differ from country to country. The goal of this study was to highlight the overlapping between the picking intervals of the main truffle species with the hunting periods of the most common wildlife species of hunting interest across Romania. In addition, for some of the most common game species, the assessed population size was also presented. Data regarding the assessed population size of the wildlife species was centralized from the website of the central authority responsible for wildlife management. In case of truffles, data contained by recently published scientific papers and information available on specialized and popular websites from Romania were compiled in order to figure the picking periods across the year. In general, the harvesting seasons of the truffles is overlapping in October, November and December, when the hunting is permitted for most of the game species.

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