The provincial hunting associations Federcaccia Bergamo and Enalcaccia they asked theUtr of Bergamo to allow wild boar hunting teams to be able to carry out in January 2020 four more bars on Sunday or alternatively on Saturday. The territory is that of the Alpine Hunting District of the Bergamasque Prealps, the only one in which this type of hunting has always been authorized due to the constant presence of the species: against an authorized collection of 800 wild boars, as of December 8, 2019 through collective hunting, 630 animals were killed.
The teams cut hunting trips by about 30% due to the heavy rains and disturbances in November, which resulted in difficulty in withdrawing, since the vegetation was still present in almost all until the first days of December and the dogs did not receive the trace of the presence of wild boars. "It is a particular and shared request to continue to stem the wild boar problem - these are the words of the President of Federcaccia Bergamo Michael Bornaghi-. The latest data issued by the Lombardy Region are eloquent, both for the damage that animals do on the territory to farmers on cultivated fields and for the risk of potential accidents on the rise throughout the season. The teams of the District were not facilitated in November by bad weather in their activities and it would be indispensable for the work they carry on also in January ".
The data of Lombardy region updated to last week they spoke of 240 culled animals with control plans, 32 with selection hunting and 550 with collective hunting for a total of 822 in the province of Bergamo. The other figure was that of casualties caused by wildlife throughout the past year, which placed our province in 4th place with 68 accidents, behind Varese (206), Pavia (160) and Sondrio (131). The idea was already born within the Management Committee of the Alpine Hunting District of the Bergamasque Prealps led by the President Maurizio Volpi, former Vice President of Federcaccia Bergamo and by the Head of the Boar Commission of Ca Giovanni Morlotti: a response from the UTR should arrive before the holiday season. “Time has given us a hand and we are behind in certain areas to reach the withdrawal plan, where we are talking about 30% less - in the words of Maurizio Volpi-.
Overall, however, things went better: Wednesdays in December dedicated to hunting in the Parco dei Colli allowed us to be able to be more incisive. It is a hunting area, after having found an agreement with the municipalities the result was good, bearing in mind that there was hunting there for the first time and we sent two teams that did not know the area: the result for the moment is good and has allowed us to kill about fifty wild boars. We are trying to do everything to decrease the number of animals for spring. From the selection hunting I was expecting something more and I hope that January can significantly raise the withdrawal plan thanks to this form ".