Lorena Martínez has become the first and youngest president of a hunting federation in our country. Her appointment as president of the Hunting Federation of the Valencian Community, at the age of 32, makes her the first woman in command of a hunting federation.
The young hunter is a Montes engineer and has an impeccable track record. In 2015 she had her first contact with a federated entity as an intern, which did not prevent her from giving her heart and soul to it (with visits to towns, headquarters, contact with managers, hunters and, in general, with the world of hunting), which made him stay working for and with hunting. She first went to the Technical Office; then she was a member of the Women and Hunting Commission; later, director of the School of Hunting and Nature, and finally, maximum regional responsible.
His beginnings in hunting were as a backpack with his father in his hometown, Enguera, with just under 5,000 inhabitants, but with one of the largest forest areas in the region, with more than 28,000 hectares. There she followed in her footsteps and she fell madly in love with our passion, hunting. Breaking stereotypes that hunting is for men. Which does not mean, in his opinion (and mine), that it is a macho hobby.
The woman has always hunted, but for obvious reasons and for which it is crazy to fight, the force has been taken by the man, which left the woman in second place, never less important.
And although it is relatively recently that women claim their role in the world of hunting, through associations, social networks and media among others, since the world is world women have been part of the hunting activity in a way or other, playing a key role inside of her.
From the Palaeolithic to the Metal Age, women not only carried out reproductive and maintenance tasks specific to their sex and to which they have traditionally been associated, but also participated in work outside the domestic sphere. All with a single goal: survival. There are anthropological studies that show that, in Prehistory, hunting birds and small mammals, such as rabbits, was a task assumed by both sexes.
From here I want to thank the tremendous work that Lorena performs, day after day, so that the world of hunting, of which “we have not been able to sell its virtues”, begins to be known for what it is, an essential activity.
I’m sure he’s going to do a great job.
Happy weekend!