Extraordinary plan
From Emilia Romagna to Abruzzo to Sardinia, the Coldiretti mobilization extends from North to South with thousands of farmers taking to the streets to stop the invasion of wild boars. The appointment is for today, Thursday 27 June, with the demonstrations scheduled in Bologna, L'Aquila and Cagliari, under the headquarters of the Region to ask for the immediate adoption of an extraordinary plan for the management and containment of wild fauna, making apply at local level the measures envisaged by the interministerial decree passed last year. After the mobilizations of Umbria, Lombardy and Calabria, the commitment of the institutions. The new mobilization follows those carried out in Umbria, yesterday, and in Lombardy and Calabria, on 18 June, with Coldiretti farmers who marched through the streets of Perugia, Milan and Cosenza with tractors and signs, to launch their cry of alarm over an out-of-control presence of wild boars which has taken on the contours of a real natural disaster.
Management and containment
In all three cities, regional leaders also attended and wanted to meet the farmers. In Umbria, President Donatella Tesei announced her commitment to giving the green light to the Extraordinary Plan for the management and containment of wild boars and to the Extraordinary Plan for the capture, killing and disposal of wild boars of the Extraordinary Commissioner of the PSA. Just as in Milan the president of the Lombardy Region Attilio Fontana together with the regional councilor for agriculture Alessandro Beduschi and in Cosenza the councilor for agriculture of the Calabria Region Gianluca Gallo, promised the farmers in attendance to give immediate answers to a problem that puts the survival of many companies is at serious risk.
Devastated crops and road accidents
Wild boars besiege the countryside and cities. There are approximately 2,3 million wild boars present in the national territory today and they now besiege cities and countryside, devastating crops, causing road accidents and compromising the environmental balance with the loss of biodiversity. The mobilisations, after Sardinia, Abruzzo and Emilia Romagna, will pass through the streets of Puglia, Molise, Marche and gradually in all the other regions. According to a Coldiretti estimate, the herds cause damage amounting to 200 million euros per year to crops, but the 170 road accidents with deaths and injuries caused by wild animals must also be added to the bill, according to Coldiretti analysis on Asaps data, which is increasing by 8% compared to the previous year. Wild boars also represent the main vehicle for the spread of African swine fever, a disease that is harmless to humans but which threatens the survival of the national butchery sector, a supply chain worth a total of around 20 billion. According to the current rules, a sick boar found kilometers away from a stable is enough to trigger the decision to cull thousands of perfectly healthy pigs (Source COLDIRETTI).
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