Big concern
After the first cases of PSA found in our Region in the last days of July, and as already done before the health emergency arrived in Toscana, we want to highlight all our concern for how the emergency has been managed up to now. There are over 1.000 hunters in the province of Massa and Carrara who have obtained the qualification for control interventions on the species since January, to which must be added hundreds more qualified for selective interventions, on the turn and with the limiere dog. Added to these are the hunters registered with organized teams - let us remember that in Tuscany there are over 30.000 who practice this historic and traditional form of hunting - who regularly, actively contribute to the management of the wild boar population.
An army of volunteers
A real "army" of volunteers, ready to do their part even outside of ordinary hunting, to contain and block the progress of ASF in Tuscany, which up to now, due to serious non-compliances which certainly do not depend on the hunters , is not given due consideration. Suffice it to say that in the province of Massa and Carrara, over a year after the outbreak of the outbreaks in Liguria near the Tuscan border, and still with the emergency arriving in the municipalities of Zeri and Pontremoli, there is no active rest center capable of to receive the animals recovered from active research activities of infected animals and any carcasses, carried out voluntarily by hunters. At the same time, however, the organized wild boar hunting teams have already financed themselves to renovate and bring their meat processing centers inside the "hunting houses" up to standard, precisely for this purpose.
The Federcaccia's point of view
An almost paradoxical situation, if we consider that 5 and 15 km respectively from the restriction zones, we find the Tuscan-Emilian Apennines National Park, with its 26.149 hectares of surface area in Tuscany alone, and the Apuan Alps Regional Park, with its 20.958 hectares that extend towards Lucca, where in fact no action is taken either on the wild boar or on the other possible vectors of transmission of the disease. For these and other reasons already expressed in recent weeks, Federcaccia Toscana-UCT, Federcaccia-UCT Provinciale di Massa and Carrara and the ATC Massa 13, will ask for an urgent meeting with the competent Departments in the next few days, to resolve as soon as possible, but in any case late, remedy this situation. We reiterate the commitment, responsibility and willingness of hunters to contribute to combating the emergency, but the institutions must also do their part (source: FIDC).
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