A long-standing problem
The current very serious emergencies that have hit ours Agriculture, strangled by the uncontrolled increase in costs, by a drought that has crippled the productions, all within a pandemic crisis whose solution is slow to resolve, have not diverted the attention of the Coldiretti Molise on the long-standing problems on which the Organization has been working for years. While political competition naturally tends to focus on issues of a national nature, our businesses continue to suffer incalculable damage every day from wild boars and the increasingly significant presence of wolves, further aggravating the critical context of livestock farms. If for the former the fogs in which the phenomenon was deliberately relegated have gradually cleared, as a consequence of the damage and risks to the safety of citizens which are increasingly endangered in the urban contexts, for the latter we are witnessing a resurgence of the phenomenon which, if not studied and controlled, risks degenerating in a short time.
The presence of the wolf in Molise
Wolves, in Molise, are present everywhere; come down from the mountains chasing their prey represented by wild boars, setting in motion a vicious circle at the end of which it is always and only the farmer who loses. The presence of the Lupo above all, it is putting at risk livestock farms that are already facing the difficulties associated with everything we know as representatives of the business world and, alas, as citizens. Coldiretti considers a census of the species necessary and not postponable, taking every useful action to identify and protect the "real" wolf, distinguishing it from hybrids or feral dogs, which risk making it disappear completely, just as the "real" native Italian wild boar has practically disappeared.
A heavy climate of mistrust
Containment measures are essential to keep the pastures from dying and forcing hundreds of families who have lived there for generations to flee more difficult rural areas where breeding is the only practicable activity, but also many young people who laboriously and courageously returned to the countryside. "Without the pastures - says Coldiretti - many extraordinary areas present in our Molise die, the environment deteriorates and landslides and floods cause damage to the territory that the entire community must pay, in addition to the loss of landscape. There is much talk of relaunching disadvantaged areas and of help for those who try to make the most marginalized areas of our region grow - the Organization continues - but a similar context is causing a serious climate of mistrust among operators in the livestock sector. they feel deeply penalized and conditioned by those lovers of environmentalism and animalism that, instead of guaranteeing the preservation of the "true" wolf species, in many cases tend only to criminalize breeders, making it unsustainable to coexist with those who, through enormous efforts, oversee and protect the territory, taking on costs well above the benefits ".
The requests of Coldiretti Molise
"If wildlife is an unavailable heritage of the State - concludes Coldiretti Molise - and is protected in the interest of the national and international community, as the c.1 of L.157, it is time for this rule to be respected. Institutions, national and regional, must assume the responsibility of intervening with adequate economic resources to restore the damage entirely and not partially, from reimbursement to carcass disposal, and in addition to this, the bureaucracy must be simplified, which in many cases represents a real obstacle for the farmer to present the damage report ". As if this were not enough, in addition to counting the direct damages, related to the loss of the animals killed, the farmers also suffer heavy indirect economic losses, for which there is no form of compensation. Following the attacks by wolves, in fact, in addition to the animals that disperse (and if the carcasses are not found, the farmer does not even have the right to compensation) there is also the stress suffered by the surviving animals which causes drastic reductions to be taken into account. of milk production, all factors that entail enormous economic damage. Coldiretti asks the Regional Councilor for Agriculture, Nicola Cavaliere, not to ignore the issue, addressing it with the right determination, through a comparison with the breeding world and the regional institution itself, to start a process of clarification and with it putting in place a strategy that recognizes, together with the sustainable presence and legitimate protection of the "real" wolf, the dignity of livestock operators within an ecosystem that, we want to remember, it was never a jungle (source: Coldiretti).