The protest in recent days in various Italian squares on the boar problem on the part of farmers has prompted various animal welfare organizations to have their say on the issue. Unfortunately, in addition to insisting onuseless killing, these acronyms continue to offer hackneyed remedies that punctually end up boring and that do not represent the real solution. Here is what he said about, for example, the LAV (Anti-Vivisection League): “Coldiretti organized a demonstration“ against wild boars ”to which the farmers' association attributes any problem, from the“ extermination of crops ”to“ health dangers ”. Always the management of wild animal populations, including wild boars, is entrusted to hunters and the lead of their guns.
And the damage to agriculture attributed to wild boars has always been growing, although they can now be hunted since 2005 24 hours a day 365 days a year. After more than fifteen years of unlimited boar hunting it should be clear what the hunting method is a failure in every respect, primarily responsible for the numerical increase of wild boars in the area but this evidence escapes the regional and national administrations which, under the pressure of farmers, continue to support the increase of hunting without any analysis of the effects of these products.
We ask Minister Cingolani to draw on the funds of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan to finance the development of the immunocontraceptive vaccine, which represents the only possibility to act effectively on the numerical consistency of wild boars, excluding the hunters which have proven to be the real cause of the continuous increase in the damage caused to agriculture ”.