Circulate one draft decree which once again appears and disappears, like all the legislative proposals on the subject of these years, despite the seriousness of the problems caused by wild boars, demonstrates the substantial will not to make coherent and suitable choices on the part of the central administration of the state. There is trench behind practically impracticable monitoring, censuses, while printing data is already being turned out. In fact, control or management plans already exist in many regions, coordination committees with very generic and very impractical tasks: on the other hand, the requests of the regions, which for years have been asking, unheard, to modify "surgically" the 157.
Indeed, from what we understand, the Ministry has not even discussed the text of the decree in the State Regions Conference, where we believe there have been extensive "bipartisan" protests by many regional councilors for agriculture and hunting. We therefore take this opportunity to renew the request to the competent Ministry to ensure that the numerous proposals for amendments to art. 19 of the 157, with the streamlining of the control procedures of species such as wild boar, with the possibility of participating in the killing specially licensed hunters, and with an expansion of the hunting time span. Measures of this kind would facilitate the control in defense of crops subject to damage and would facilitate the containment of the species at lower densities than the current ones, reducing the risk of possible spread of swine fever should it unfortunately arrive and road accidents which are a reality.
We are in a historical moment that in our opinion requires incisive choices not "palliative care"! On the technical level then there would be a lot to object; we limit ourselves to saying that the European Commission itself recommends that efforts be made to find any carcasses of dead animals because, if a person is affected by swine fever, he dies in a few days, so the probability for hunters to kill a sick person is negligible compared to efforts of large-scale monitoring of culled animals: superfluous and useless therefore to analyze all the animals killed. In short, we hope for a different and useful decree, prepared in terms of content and method, in consultation and cooperation with the Regions, with farmers and the hunting associations that with their members are the main volunteers who carry out the management of the wild boar. The rest are words!
I believe that with regard to Swine Fever, unjustified alarmism is being created here, for PSC (classical swine fever) it differs from other European nations; I do not know that it is present on Italian territory !!!
As for the ASF (African swine fever) present in other Eastern European countries; it seems to me that only 9 cases have been recorded in Sardinia on Italian soil, and that the outbreak has already been eradicated there too !!!!
In our wild boars we can eventually find cases of Trichinella or TB ???
But if all the carcasses of the killed animals necessarily pass through a health control point, as happens here in the province of Como, and you collect the carcass after the visit and approval of the UTS veterinarian, this danger of infecting someone is very remote !!! !