"A concrete commitment is now needed to stop the uncontrolled proliferation of wild animals with the number of wild boars present in the two provinces of Lake Como which has reached unsustainable levels, while reports of damage to the land from the Upper Lake, to the Plain, from the Menaggio and Intelvi valleys continue to rain Lecchese and Valsassina". Coldiretti, through the interprovincial president Fortunato Trezzi, reiterates that "the adoption of a concrete and effective action plan". “The wild boar population, in particular, has well over two million in Italy, with damage, attacks and accidents but also an evident health risk”. This is what he says Coldiretti Como Lecco commenting on the World Health Organization (WHO) request to stop the sale of live wild in food markets to prevent the spread of infectious diseases.
"With the lockdowns due to the Covid emergency, the presence of wild animals in cities looking for food among the waste, in parks and even in the courtyards of houses in search of food with obvious health risks. An emergency that spreads from the countryside to the cities, compromising the environmental balance of vast territorial ecosystems even in areas of high naturalistic value. Without forgetting the destruction of agricultural crops, the killing of animals and the increasingly frequent road accidents also in the provinces of northern Lombardy".
Not only that: to reiterate the risk factors, the association recalls, is also the surveillance and prevention plan for 2021 published by the Ministry of Health which reiterates how wild boars have a fundamental role in the spread of the Psa virus and therefore one of the necessary measures in Italy is the numerical management of the population of these animals. "The action, therefore, according to the Plan - continues Coldiretti Como Lecco - must be aimed at both numerical and spatial reduction through hunting activities, the control actions of law 157/92 article 19 and programmable actions in the network of protected areas ".