Containment operations
The Municipality of Collesano has also unanimously approved the agreement for support in operations to contain wild ungulates in the territory of the Madonie Park. The city council of the Madonite center, in recent days, has in fact voted in favor of this step. Already in the previous weeks, the municipal administration had equipped itself, with its own funds, with relative cages for the capture of wild ungulates, specifically pigs, whose capture techniques, in compliance with what is provided for in the approved plans, provide for the use of specific metal manhole covers. The next phase will be the public notice for the distribution of the manhole covers to the applicants, which will be followed, as per national and regional legislation, by the management of the carcasses resulting from the containment operations, such as for example the relative delivery to the Petralia Sottana collection center, or to be allocated to feeding centers for birds of prey at risk of extinction.
The problems of the agricultural-livestock sector
"The purchase of the manhole covers and the approval of the agreement for the post-capture management of pigs - explains the mayor of Collesano Tiziana Cascio - represent the beginning of a shared path that involves our Municipality and the Park Authority. An important action aimed at protecting biodiversity and at the same time mitigating the problems of the agricultural-livestock sector brought to its knees by the uncontrolled expansion of wild fauna. As an administration we are very satisfied with the result achieved in agreement with the entire City Council".
The other municipalities
"The adoption of the Convention by the Municipality of Collesano - explains the Commissioner of the Park Authority Salvatore Caltagirone - is in addition to that of the Municipalities of Polizzi and Castelbuono, which have already equipped themselves with specially made cages. The operational phase of the wild fauna containment plan now moves into a synergic action with the Municipalities. Thanks also to Mayor Cascio for the attention and sensitivity shown towards the territory and the environment". The excessive proliferation of deer and wild boars, as is known, is putting at risk the biodiversity that characterizes the Madonie Natural Park, with significant repercussions also on local crops. The Park Authority has long been equipped with an innovative plan, the result of rigorous application of national and regional regulations and of close discussion and synergy between various branches of the regional administration, with the regional Departments for Territory and Environment, Agriculture and the Department of Rural Development and veterinary services at the forefront, which today constitutes, at a national level, a courageous operational model capable of simultaneously managing both the fallow deer and swine emergencies.
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