The uncontrolled and almost unstoppable proliferation of wildlife, primarily of wild boars, requires extraordinary interventions, also of a regulatory nature. Too many and no longer sustainable are the damage that this situation is causing to farms and livestock farms as well as to public safety of citizens all. She is convinced of it Coldiretti Molise who, in denouncing this state of affairs, requested, in recent days, a meeting with the new Prefect of Campobasso, dr. Francis Antonio Cappetta, to discuss the problem at 360 ° and find quick and effective solutions as soon as possible.
“The numerous reports of damage and accidents caused by wildlife, first of all from wild boars, confirm that the alarm has never been so high in Molise for what represents a real calamity that destroys agricultural crops, attacks farms and causes danger on the street, putting people's safety at risk. ". This was stated by Coldiretti Molise reiterating that the presence of wild animals has now assumed extraordinary proportions, which concern the countryside but also urban centers where wild boars have now become permanent presences that scratch among the waste with concrete risks for the health and safety of farmers and citizens.
“The number of serious accidents with deaths or injuries caused by animals has increased significantly in recent years - he reports Giuseppe Spinelli, Confederal Delegate of Coldiretti Molise - We are facing an important danger for the safety and health of motorists both on the road and on the motorway ”. An emergency that is also causing the abandonment of internal areas, social, economic and environmental problems with inevitable negative effects on the landscape and production. “The unbridled proliferation of wild animals - continues Spinelli - is putting the environmental balance of vast territorial ecosystems at risk. We have reports from every corner of the region. Studies and experiences relating to the high density of wild boars in areas of high naturalistic value have shown considerable critical issues, in particular with regard to the relationship between the growth of the wild population and forest vegetation.
Precisely the methods of searching for food through a conspicuous excavation activity clearly visible on cultivated fields causes, in fact, considerable damage to biodiversity even on uncultivated surfaces ”. Coldiretti Molise, estimating a presence in the region of about forty thousand wild boars, also remembers that these animals reach 180 centimeters in length, can graze two quintals in weight and have fangs that in some cases reach up to 30 centimeters, being assimilated to real weapons with deadly consequences for men and animals, as well as become instruments of devastation on cultivated and harvested fields. Over 6 out of 10 Italians (62%) - according to the Coldiretti / Ixè survey - are afraid of wild boars and almost half (48%) would not even take a home in an area infested by these animals.
A situation that has reached the limit, so much so that more than 8 out of 10 Italians (over 80%) think that the wild boar emergency must be addressed with the resort to killing, employing specialized personnel to reduce the number. "Never as today is it essential to give certainty to agricultural businesses and guarantee the future to farmers - concludes the Confederal Delegate of Coldiretti Molise - give structural and effective answers, starting from the modification of the National legislation. In fact, Law 157 of 1992 is now superseded in the part in which it deals with the issue of combating the proliferation of some species, and in particular of wild boars, in order to allow the restoration also with the intervention of specialised personnel, of the environmental balance that has been visibly compromised. Farmers do not work to obtain compensation for damages, but to achieve a quality production that must be protected and safeguarded especially in a difficult moment like this, in which the health emergency has strongly compromised the economic balance of the country. It is necessary to find effective answers and not to keep beating around the bush on a problem that is now out of control ”.