Extraordinary regional plan
The passage of a herd of wild boars, walking in a cherry orchard in Martina Franca, with the ungulates that have devoured the cherries and caused damage to the plants by breaking the branches, yet another episode of a situation out of control, for which every measure contained in the Extraordinary Regional Plan for management and containment must be activated immediately. Complaints from farmers of Coldiretti Puglia are piling up, with herds of wild boars that roam the countryside in search of food and water, leaving crops and plants in poor condition, but also creating safety problems for farmers and motorists on rural and provincial roads, with 12 serious road accidents in 2024 alone.
Not just fruit
With Puglia invaded by 250 thousand wild boars, there is not only the plague of wild boars, but it is an alarm for the safety of people in the countryside and cities with packs that push right into urban centers, among parked cars, strollers with children and elderly people going to do the shopping, with the areas of the Murgia barese and tarantina, of the Gargano and of the Daunia sub-Apennines - insists Coldiretti Puglia - become the Eldorado of wild boars that devastate the crops devouring Altamura lentils, grass peas, broad beans, chickpeas and peas, broccoli, vegetables, newly sown seedlings of broad beans and wheat, grapes especially on espalier vines, fruit shaking the trees, all the undergrowth and the biodiversity of the woods and parks. The extraordinary regional plan for the management and containment of wild fauna in Puglia, starting with the wild boar species ('Sus scrofa'), approved by the Puglia Regional Council and strongly supported by Coldiretti, which also applied pressure with the demonstration of thousands of farmers under the Regional Palace, must be fully and immediately implemented.
From the hills to the plains
It is a real emergency that puts at risk the safety as well as the farmers' production, but also the health of motorists due to the presence of wild animals and wild boars, which can reach a quintal and a half in weight and 150 centimeters in length. A fear - highlights Coldiretti Puglia - that spreads from the hills to the plains, from the areas near the basins to those on the sea, but in small provincial centers with less than five thousand inhabitants it even rises to 83% of residents. In Puglia, the damage caused by wild fauna is enormous, with wild boars destroying crops and attacking humans and farm animals, as well as feral wolves and dogs, starlings wiping out olive production and destroying pitches, hares literally devouring entire fields of vegetables, cormorants eating fish in aquaculture plants, green parrots feeding on fruit and almonds and the killer of the seas, the blue crab, which exterminates clams, mussels, eggs, other fish and molluscs. with an overall estimated damage of over 30 million euros.
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