The emergency is growing wild boars in Molise. After the last car accident which occurred on June 8th along the state road 17, near the junction of San Polo Matese, the spotlight is turned back on a problem that has not been resolved for years: the uncontrolled and now unstoppable increase of wild boars throughout the region. We are talking about entire herds that now circulate unchallenged on land, roads and inhabited centers, often sowing panic among the increasingly alarmed population towards a problem that no longer affects only farmers, whose fields are systematically and daily destroyed but also the public safety.
So farmers put on the pavement by the daily raids of wild boars, motorists increasingly at risk of very dangerous road accidents, even along state roads and not only the secondary roads of the region, as well as citizens who always come across higher frequency in wild boars that take possession of parks and gardens without any fear of man. “It is a gloomy picture - explains Giuseppe Spinelli, Confederal Delegate of Coldiretti Molise - the one painted by the reality of the last few months that urgent immediate and effective solutions.
Thanks to our continuous and pressing trade union action we managed to obtain a series of measures from the Molise Region, the largest of which is certainly the self-control intervention, which allows agricultural entrepreneurs with a rifle port license for hunting and suitably trained with a specific course, the possibility of defending their fields from the destructive force of wild boars; but - adds Spinelli - unfortunately this is not enough. Now the ball goes to the national Parliament which will have to modify the hunting law (n. 157 of 1992), providing for appropriate rules that allow to reduce the number of these extremely prolific animals to really solve the problem. The survival of our companies is at stake - concludes the Regional Director of Coldiretti Molise, Aniello Ascolese - vital lymph of the regional and national economy, already severely tested by the pandemic crisis, but also the protection of biodiversity and obviously the safety of citizens ”.