An urgent problem
The MEP Pietro fiocchi speaking in a plenary session in Strasbourg regarding the problem of large carnivores, he highlighted the problem, now no longer deferrable, regarding the urgency and need to declassify the wolf from a highly protected to a protected species. In Italy the estimated number of wolves is thousands of specimens with increasingly frequent predations and attacks on humans. Not only donkeys, sheep, goats and cattle but also dogs and pets.
Species that disappear
Aid to farmers, such as fences, guardian dogs, etc., is not sufficient as the reimbursements for predation are ridiculous. Furthermore, it is absurd to lock up animals in an enclosure in the high mountains where the concept of semi-wild breeding, in operation for centuries, has immense value in the prevention of fires and hydrogeological risk. Native species of goats and sheep are disappearing in light of the countless predations and the risk is the abandonment of agriculture, mountain farming and mountain pastures with the consequent anthropisation of the Alpine landscape and loss of biodiversity.
Situation in Valtellina
“I was recently in Valtellina a few hours after a raid on a mountain farm. I can't describe the torment that occurred to me. In front of me there were animals that had been in agony for a long time because the wolves had eaten their entrails. I still remember the eyes of these poor animals. Frightened and suffering eyes that will remain forever in my mind, like those of their breeder. Animal rights activists – concluded Fiocchi – want to defend wolves at all costs but perhaps from their comfortable living room they have never witnessed the death of a sheep in such a bloody and heartbreaking way. Their recipe is to eliminate man through the renaturalization project. Animal rights activists protect the crows that undermine the survival of sparrows as a species, the cormorants that exterminate the bleaks in our lakes and rivers, the foxes that feed on the eggs of avifauna, the bears that kill humans and the wolves that massacre flocks. If I have to choose between the sheep and the wolf, I'M WITH THE SHEEP!”