The regional councilor ofAbruzzo Dino Pepe, presented a question to the President of the Regional Council and the competent Councilor concerning “Management and activities of control of wild boar populations in the Abruzzo region". “Already last April I had publicly denounced the anomalous suspension of the killing of wild boars in the province of Teramo where, just two days after the killing began, all activities in this sense had been suspended ”says Pepe.
“In this period of time in which I have not received any concrete response from the provincial and regional institutions, I have wild boar sightings intensified, day and night, throughout the territory, and with them the news reports that report road accidents caused by wild boars and damage to agriculture and the ecosystem ". By virtue of this situation, which risks creating enormous problems for the entire territory, the Deputy Regional Parent of the Democratic Party asks to know if the Regional Council is aware of the demographic dynamics of the wild boar populations and of the worrying increase in road damage and accidents in the regional territory; whether it is aware of the unjustified and autonomous interruption, by the province of Teramo, of all the control activities of wild boar populations in its territory, which took place from 9 March 2019 until today; if the regional administration, evaluating what has been described in terms of damage to agricultural production and road accidents caused by the crossing of wild boars, has made any necessary checks on the causes or reasons for said interruption, in order also to verification of the situation; but above all what urgent measures it intends to adopt, in order to guarantee the effective control of wild boar populations and adequate damage control to the agricultural producers of Abruzzo.
“In the nearly five years in which I have been Deputy Councilor for this matter the regional council has implemented various measures against the invasion of wild boars, such as the extension of the hunt period for the species from the previous three months to the current twelve months, through the introduction of selection hunting "at full capacity", the redefinition of the boar vocation areas by creating a strategic planning of the faunal presences on the entire regional territory and identifying, among the most productive and urbanized areas, the eradication areas for wild boar ”concludes Dino Pepe.
“I therefore hope for a swift and decisive intervention by the new Regional Councilor and that take steps to break this sudden stalemate and unjustified so that the set of measures implemented by the Region, and programmed until 2020, allows to achieve the achievement of the strategic objectives of damage reduction, which can be assessed in terms of a decrease in public spending for their compensation, thus contributing to give greater dignity to the work of farmers and to give more safety to those who travel through the areas and the Abruzzo road network ".