Coldiretti Marche accuses political delays on the management of the wild boar population in the Region which affect farmers for a daily cost of 5 thousand euros.
"The delays of the policy, which kept the regulation for the management of wild boars in the drawer for five months, cost over five thousand euros a day to farmers in the Marche region, for an account that has already reached 800 thousand euros since July". The accusation comes from Coldiretti after the third Commission of the Marche Regional Council began examining the document for the management of wild animals.
A provision linked to the new hunting law launched in July, but until now inexplicably held firm, thus favoring the status quo and, consequently, the lobby of those wild boar hunters who have an interest in not diminishing the presence of wild animals.
In the meantime, Coldiretti Marche denounces, the wild continued to wreak havoc on crops, driving up the damage toll, not to mention the problem of road accidents.
The accumulated delay cost about 800 thousand euros and is preventing the necessary works from being planned prevention also for the other species which, when grown beyond measure, threaten crops, from porcupines to fallow deer and pigeons.
Some proposals have been presented to the Council, starting with management of hunters, who are entrusted with the task of reducing the number of animals, until now totally disregarded.
Coldiretti asks to fine the teams that at the end of the year have not reached the objective of the presence of a maximum of five wild boars per 100 hectares (reduced to zero in the areas with the greatest presence of arable crops), but also to run them, avoiding that the same people always manage the same part of the territory, ending up transforming it into a real reserve.
According to Coldiretti even farmers who own or manage the land must be licensed to manage wild boars, while the economic contributions forfeited by the Territorial Areas of Hunting must be allocated to the costs of prevention and compensation for damage caused to agriculture.
Source: NotiziediZona.it