The amount paid
Thanks to the dialogue and collaboration with the Lombardy Region, which made the necessary funds available, the Ticino Park has paid compensation to its agricultural companies for damage caused by wild fauna to agricultural crops for the years 2023 and 2024. These compensations were paid to 36 agricultural companies that suffered damage in 2023, which were assigned an amount of €160.423,78, and to 38 agricultural companies that suffered damage in 2024, which were assigned an amount of €110.953,00; a total of €271.376,78 was paid.
Prevention measures
For 40 years, this Park has provided the agricultural sector with ongoing assistance to businesses, including support in filing reports of damage caused by wild animals (especially wild boars), identifying the most appropriate prevention measures, promptly carrying out assessments and estimates, and paying compensation to businesses. Also crucial is the commitment to reducing the most impactful species, especially wild boars, carried out by our Park Rangers with the crucial support of specially trained Volunteer Wildlife Operators.
Protection of environmental components
"We believe that awarding compensation for this damage is a duty toward the agricultural businesses in our area that carry out their production activities within the protected area every day," states the President of the Ticino Park, Ismaele Rognoni. "Protecting the Park's environmental components requires the certainty that agricultural areas play a fundamental role in maintaining and improving the environmental quality of the soil, water, and cultivated fields. Heartfelt thanks go to all the Park employees involved in the careful management of this complex activity, to our Volunteer Wildlife Operators for their unwavering support in containing the wild boar, and to the Lombardy Region for the sensitivity demonstrated on this occasion as well."
Support for farmers
This year, the Lombardy Region has once again allocated the necessary financial resources to the Parks. "The payment of compensation to farmers in the Ticino Park represents a concrete, necessary, and long-awaited response to those who work daily in an area of extraordinary environmental and productive value," says Gianluca Comazzi, Councilor for Land and Green Systems for the Lombardy Region. "The Lombardy Region has provided the necessary resources to ensure that the damage caused by wild fauna does not fall on the shoulders of farms, recognizing the essential role that agriculture plays in protecting the soil, water resources, and the landscape. Supporting farmers means ensuring territorial protection, environmental balance, and production continuity: a commitment that the Lombardy Region intends to carry forward with responsibility and continuity."
Pig farms
The efforts of the Lombardy Region and the Park have been particularly significant in recent years due to the spread of ASF, the African Swine Fever virus, also carried by wild boars, which poses a serious threat to pig farms. The monitoring and prevention efforts carried out by the Park, in close collaboration with health authorities and the Lombardy Region, have helped contain the spread of the virus while implementing the necessary selective containment measures for the wild boar species. The Lombardy Region and the Ticino Park will continue to maintain close collaboration in the coming years to ensure the protection of the environmental characteristics of Europe's largest river park and to support and enhance agricultural activities, with their fundamental functions in production and in protecting the agroecosystem (source: Ticino Park Authority).
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