From the magazine Piemonte Parchi a confirmation of AIW's thesis regarding the damage caused by the wolf to sheep and goat farms as well as to domestic animals, especially in the area of the Piedmontese Alps.
Here is some very comforting news for those who criticized the AIW Document of 20 August on the problem of the Wolf in Italy and on the thesis, always supported by the undersigned, that the Wolf in the Piedmontese Alps came from France and not from the Apennines.
The Piedmont Parks magazine published by the Piedmont Region, which has always been a supporter of the defense of the Wolf of the Alps regardless of its origin (and which in recent years had always tried to minimize the damage caused by wolves). last issue (8/2011) in an article signed by the collaborator Claudia Bordese as follows: “(…) the wolves have returned to tread the Piedmontese Alpine valleys (…) crossing over from France, then on to Ossola. (…) Like all medals, this one also has its reverse ”.
The article continues: “Our mountains have been a source of sustenance for centuries for those who are dedicated to raising sheep and goats. (…) The attacks - about 300 in the 2009 mountain pasture season in Piedmont alone - generate damage that goes well beyond the number of animals killed. In fact, we must also take into account the many wounded and missing animals, those that to escape the attack have fallen into a cliff, or that for fear have drastically reduced the production of milk ".
Finally, the article reads, “Psychological decompensation further weakens the survivors. The management costs increase, because the animals can no longer be left alone, and often it is necessary to resort to the use of electrified fences or the use of guardian dogs. (…) Dogs, instinctively prepared to attack and repel wolves, can sometimes prove to be a problem for passing hikers. To this is added the psychological discomfort of operating in the constant expectation of an attack. It is clear that the economic compensation of the killed animals is not enough to solve the problem ”.
In other words, they are the same things that can be read in my Document "The Wolf problem in Italy", except that it is not Franco Zunino who writes them but Claudia Bordese, a collaborator of Piemonte Parks, and these are words that seem to echo the report of the Agriculture Commission of the Chamber which is examining this problem!
All that remains is to hope that this Commission takes into account this article, which, I repeat, does not come from the usual Franco Zunino and published by the (for many) despicable "Wilderness / D", but by another person and published by an authoritative and ecologically aligned newspaper "On the right side" (although a super-partes position would be required, given its political dependence on a Region and therefore to represent all the citizens of the same) which until yesterday on the return of the Wolf in the Alps has always supported (Directors intesta! ) a clearly reverse thesis.
Not to mention the damage that wolves are inflicting on Piedmontese sheep farming, not caring (the wolves) of the thousands of wild boars, deer and roe deer that populate its current range and the beautiful ecological textbook theories that are so popular with animalists and ecologists. or, better, from school desks): the weakest links in the food chain of the Wolf in Europe were and always remain the sheep, the goat, the horse and the calf!
Too bad that this "courageous" article (because in contradiction with all the articles previously published in the same magazine (I repeat, often directed by convinced anti-hunt animal rights!), However, it gets lost in the end, where instead of finding the courage to say also that the wolves must be reduced in number, the Bordese gets by with words and announces the usual Italian solution: a study commission (“PROPAST project”) to determine what to do!
But it is already something, given that until recently the two topics covered, written in black and white by Piemonte Parchi, were a taboo. If nothing else, we recognize that a problem exists; and yes, it is already something!
THE SECRETARY GENERAL
Signed by Franco Zunino
Source: Wilderness