Insurance to cover damage caused by any accidents and the establishment of a specific figure, a sort of 'ranger' or 'gamekeeper', who supports the police against the "uncontrolled growth of the population of the wildlife, in particular of wild boars ». Immortalized everywhere, walking on the street in urban centers or rummaging through the waste, wild boars are now no longer just the protagonists of social irony, but "A real emergency throughout the country". The alarm comes from the Regions, which in a document delivered to the Agriculture Commission of the Chamber launch a series of interventions necessary for cope with the "massive damage" to plantations, "The increase in road accidents with sometimes fatal outcomes and health and hygiene risks" caused by the so-called 'ungulates'.
The issue is so urgent that, according to the Conference of Governors and Autonomous Provinces, the establishment of a special national technical committee on the subject and 100% compensation for damage caused by protected fauna, but also the introduction of specific support figures to the provincial police in the implementation of the control plans and the possibility of providing insurance coverage in case of damage caused by these animals. «It is urgent to define adequate intervention tools - he explains Cristiano Corazzari, Veneto councilor, representing the Agricultural Policy Commission of the Regions - because the national regulatory framework is outdated and deficient. It is necessary to allow an effective restoration of environmental balances, substantially compromised ".
The alarm comes above all from the North: the database ofHigher Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (Ispra) today it records over 2,5 million wild boars in Italy, with a particular increase in the northern areas and in Veneto alone there are about 200 reports of damage per year. "Regions must be given the opportunity to equip themselves with an adequate provincial police force, which in fact no longer exists after the introduction of the Delrio law, ”explains Corazzari.
Hence the idea of «expanding the audience of subjects involved in 'control plans', (which, according to the requests, should also be used for reasons of "public safety") with the figure of the assistant, properly trained and hired after public scrutiny. A sort of gamekeeper who would be flanked by the local police, the forest police and employees of the provincial and regional administrations with a hunting license.