Cinque Terre - Val di Vara - 2.606: this is the annual average number of wild boars killed in the Spezzino as part of the activities of containment of the ungulate. A value, reported in the wild boar management plan recently approved by the Cinque Terre National Park, referred to 1998-2019 period ("The data relating to the years 2020 and 2021 will be analyzed at the end of the 2021 season", reads the Plan). The paper naturally puts the magnifying glass on the protected area: "Between January 2016 and September 2019 - we read, with reference to the most recent annuity - a total of 527 interventions were carried out which led, thanks to the overall use of approximately 713 coadjutors, to the culling of 570 animals.
The analysis of the slaughtering over the years shows that 2016, with 216 animals slaughtered, is the year in which the greatest number was reached ". Busy period (linked to the number of assistants employed and the days of activity) in the interval considered, that between January and April. Looking at the individual municipal areas, the average number of interventions and assistants involved was 11 and 81 for La Spezia (which is part of the Park only for a western portion of its territory), 26 speeches and 248 participants for Monterosso, 19 and 182 Riomaggiore, 29 and 203 Vernazza. No control activities are carried out in the Levantese part of the Park, small and developed along the coast, where interventions are therefore difficult to implement.