On Saturday a strong and significant demonstration by Farmers took place in Vibo Valentia to protest against the wild boar emergency and ask for concrete actions by the Region and the ATC (Territorial Areas of Hunting). The Arci Caccia e Pesca in the province of Vibo Valentia expresses full and unconditional solidarity with all the Agricultural world. Support has always been publicly expressed and on various occasions, clearly expressing its conviction against the repopulation of ungulates in areas where wild boars had never been present.
“The initial and indisputable point is that of currently considering the wild boar as the only“ critical ”species due to the negative impact on agricultural ecosystems, also because its diffusion and its high number produces an imbalance of the trophic pyramid and therefore harmful to the hunting world itself. About 95% of wildlife damage to agricultural ecosystems must be attributed to wild boar and the impact is now very critical in almost all of the provincial territory. " “The causes that led to the achievement of this critical situation can be identified in two main areas: reckless immissions in past years, sometimes favored by managers with poor professionalism even in areas deemed not suitable by the same wildlife plan; instrumental use of “do-it-yourself repopulations” by groups of “hunters” supported by their associations. Repopulations, the latter prohibited by law, also because they often lack the prescribed health checks on game and its suitability, therefore an increase in criticalities! ".
"There is a need to consider wild boar as an integral part of agro-ecosystems, with which it is necessary to learn to live together, accepting its presence, without renouncing, however, even drastic actions, where a reduction in consistency is necessary, or even its eradication in some areas, especially those with a strong agricultural and tourist vocation ”. “It is necessary to arrive at a better management of the species; adopt a shared governance strategy extended to protected natural areas, ATCs, based on technical-scientific principles and aimed at achieving a situation of sustainable equilibrium between the amount of the economic and social costs of the damage, game bag ".
"The" wild boar "problem can no longer be underestimated, not only due to the various criticalities on agricultural and wildlife-hunting ecosystems, but also on the aspects of road safety and hydrogeological instability". Solidarity and proposals for solutions, which come from afar and in unsuspecting times, when Arci Caccia e Pesca, as anticipated, through press releases, sometimes with some Agricultural Organizations; at other times in strong solitude, manifesting arguments, also in disagreement with the orientation of other hunting associations, he declared his opposition to those repopulations, which have proved to be quite harmful. Solidarity spread throughout the territory, also because there are many hunters who cultivate their fields, not exempt from the raids of wild boars. Solidarity, also motivated by the fact that, albeit to practice their hunting passion, they submit to heavy regional and national taxes, hunters, to date, are the only and only ones to legally counteract the strong increase in wild boar populations, by means of killing. Convinced solidarity, therefore, active and participatory.
We read, of invented solidarity with farmers by some "Sunday environmentalists", only to take sides against hunting, against killing, and also against selection, which, although they do not completely solve the problem, decrease the presence of ungulates and therefore their pressure: all following a project approved by ISPRA (Higher Institute for Environmental Protection and Research), and therefore in full legitimacy. Moreover, the Law n ° 157/92 which regulates hunting and establishes the ATC (Territorial Hunting Areas), entrusts the management of the territory in faunal-hunting matters, mainly to the Farmers, Hunters and Environmentalists Organizations, present on the site. and in a unitary way; therefore, other than imagined solidarity: collaborating in management is precisely the spirit of the law. To the Region and to the AA.TT.CC. greater attention and commitment is required to the problem of the containment of the species, now widespread throughout the region; we can no longer linger with warm panicelli, and we cannot expect the repeatedly feared modification of the national and regional law on hunting times for wild boar: agricultural workers must be offered solutions immediately, and before they have to be forced to abandon their profession.