Coldiretti Liguria, nationally, with the health emergency in progress, the number of wild boars circulating without brakes has risen to over two million countryside and cities, damaging crops and putting road safety at risk, a situation now aggravated by the fact that often containment services and the selectors, the territorial hunting areas closed, while the provincial police are rightly engaged in roadside checks for quarantine. Even in Liguria the number of wild boars, but also of other wild animals, continues to increase, with the multiplication of damages and dangers that follow.
"It is certainly not the first time that on state, regional and municipal extra-urban roads - affirm the president of Coldiretti Liguria Gianluca Boeri and the confederal delegate Bruno Rivarossa - wild boar or roe deer suddenly cross the roadway putting at risk the safety of people and the safety of the animal itself: with the proliferation of wildlife without control, it becomes dangerous, therefore, to circulate and if road accidents in the last period have decreased it is only because, with the provisions that we must follow, there are fewer people around, but as soon as it returns to normal the problem will increase considerably.
In Liguria it is not new now, moreover, to meet wild boars walking around the city centers, starting from the regional capital where they have even been reported, as well as on the heights, in the residential district of Castelletto down to the Porto Antico, and along the entire bed of the streams Polcevera and Bisagno, and if wild animals such as roe deer arrive, now, even on the seafront of Camogli, made deserted by the health emergency, we understand that the situation is now out of control. In our hinterland then it is easy to find examples in the provincial roads, not to mention the incursions reported by farms where the bands and the classic dry stone walls continue to be damaged, while crops are raided and farm animals threatened.
The frequent incursions of wildlife, in general, therefore increasingly put the survival of local agricultural businesses at risk now exasperated, but also the protection of the territory, the safety of people, the safety of the environment and of the animals themselves, given that such a high number of specimens can also facilitate the onset of epizootic diseases. It is therefore necessary that urgent and extraordinary measures are put in place, since this situation, now, can cause further problems, not only for local businesses, for which they would add up to those already in place in this difficult moment, but for society as a whole ".