A decisive turn of the council of the The Tuscan Regional Authority that with the order of the President Giani finally authorizes the owners and tenants of the funds equipped with hunting license to take action directly for defend yourself from wild boars, under the coordination of the responsible agent identified by the Provincial Police and the Police of the Metropolitan City of Florence. Coldiretti Toscana applauds the regional ordinance governing hunting and wildlife control, together with other provisions on the subject of containment and management of the epidemiological emergency from COVID-19 for the orange zone. "We express satisfaction and appreciation for the Ordinance signed by President Giani who accepts our requests, precisely at the moment of greatest criticality in containing the presence of ungulates in the area", affirms the president of Coldiretti Toscana, Fabrizio Filippi.
Coldiretti Toscana had opened the discussion on these issues from the first meeting with the Regional Councilor for Agro-food Saccardi and the fruits are reaped with the commitments maintained thanks to the signing of the Ordinance. "We will ask the Councilor Saccardi an immediate confrontation with the Provincial Police and the Regional Coordination of the ATC - specifies Filippi - with the will to give the maximum collaboration for the streamlining of the authorization procedures, useful to make the provisions of the Ordinance effective ", adding that after this first long-awaited act" it is necessary that the contents of the provision - urges the president Filippi - become the norm beyond the Covid emergency, when it will be possible return to normal".
For Coldiretti Toscana it is imperative, in relation to the containment of wild fauna and in particular of ungulates, that the Tuscany Region intervenes in a decisive and decisive manner in the operations of containment of wild boars. "As a result of Covid, with restrictions on movement in cities and rural areas - adds President Filippi - in the countryside there has been a proliferation of ungulates that roam freely, with an exponential increase in damage to agricultural production ". Agriculture in Tuscany has never stopped, guaranteeing supplies to Tuscan families thanks to the work of over 40 farms and stables, 2 food processing companies and a widespread distribution network between shops, supermarkets, discount stores and farmers' markets in Campagna Amica, despite the safety concerns, constraints, economic difficulties and objective obstacles to operations.
"While waiting to get out of the Covid emergency, we must pass without delay from words to deeds - urges President Filippi - with the resolution of the Executive Committee complete with the fundamental step that authorizes farmers to intervene directly on their own funds to defend themselves from wild boars and wild. The agri-food and livestock heritage preserved over time by over 40 thousand agricultural companies with a daily commitment to ensure the preservation of historical agricultural crops, the protection of the territory from hydrogeological instability and the maintenance of food traditions, a treasure put at risk by the advance of the wild boars that increasingly in these areas go into the courtyards and on the doors of the houses, roaming the streets of the villages or on the fields, in the stables and in the farms”, Concludes Filippi.
A situation that now forces companies to leave uncultivated land, distorting the production structure of the areas - adds Coldiretti Toscana - with the risk that the presence of farmers will cease, especially in inland areas, and with it that constant maintenance work which guarantees protection from hydrogeological instability. Responsibility is needed in the defense of farms, shepherds and breeders who courageously continue to guard even the most isolated territories - notes Coldiretti Toscana - and to guarantee the beauty of the landscape and the future of Made in Italy agri-food. The unbridled proliferation of wild boars is also endangering the environmental balance of vast territorial ecosystems. Studies and experiences relating to the high density of wild boars in areas of high naturalistic value have shown considerable criticalities - concludes Coldiretti Toscana - in particular as regards the relationship between the growth of the wild population and forest vegetation.