Endless damage
While regional politics is committed to resolving the budget issue, which certainly assumes strong relevance, but unfortunately does not represent the only emergency in our region, agricultural businesses in Molise continue to suffer incalculable damage on a daily basis from wild boars and the increasingly significant presence of wolves, further worsening the critical situation of livestock farms. The cry of alarm comes from Coldiretti Molise which continues its incessant action to denounce all the current, very serious emergencies that have hit our agriculture, strangled by the uncontrolled increase in costs, by a drought that has decimated production, by the raging of various atmospheric disasters, all within an economic and social crisis whose solution is slow to resolve.
The phenomenon of wolves
However, if for wild boars the fog in which the phenomenon was deliberately relegated has gradually cleared, as a result of the damage and risks to the safety of citizens, increasingly put at risk on roads and in urban contexts, for wolves we are witnessing a resurgence of the phenomenon which, if not studied and controlled, risks degenerating in a short time. Wolves are present everywhere in Molise; they 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 out. The presence of the wolf is putting at risk, above all, livestock farms which are already facing the difficulties linked to everything we know as representatives of the business world and, alas, as citizens.
Hybrids and feral dogs
Coldiretti deems a census of the species necessary and cannot be postponed, implementing every useful action to identify and protect the "real" wolf by distinguishing it from hybrids or feral dogs, which risk making it disappear completely, just as the "real" wolf has practically disappeared. ” wild boar originally from Italy. Containment measures are essential to prevent the death of the pastures and force hundreds of families to flee who for generations have populated the most difficult rural areas where livestock farming is the only viable activity, but also many young people who have laboriously and courageously returned to countryside. Without pastures - states Coldiretti - many extraordinary areas present in our Molise die, the environment degrades and landslides and floods cause damage to the territory that the entire community must pay for, in addition to the loss of landscape. There is a lot of talk about revitalizing disadvantaged areas and help for those who try to help the most marginalized areas of our Region grow, but a similar context is causing a serious climate of mistrust among operators in the livestock sector who feel deeply penalized and conditioned by those enthusiasts of environmentalism and animalism who, instead of guaranteeing the preservation of the "true" wolf species, tend in many cases only to criminalize breeders, making their coexistence unsustainable with those who, through enormous efforts, guard and protect the territory, taking on high costs greater than the benefits.
The responsibility to intervene
If wildlife is the unavailable heritage of the State - concludes Coldiretti Molise - and is protected in the interest of the national and international community, as cited in c. 1 of L.157/92, it is time that this rule is respected. The institutions, national and regional, must assume the responsibility of intervening with adequate economic resources to restore the damages entirely and not partially, from reimbursement to disposal of the carcasses; furthermore, the bureaucracy must be simplified which in many cases represents a real obstacle lackey the breeder presents the damage report. In addition to counting the direct damages relating to the loss of animals killed, farmers also suffer heavy indirect economic losses, for which no form of compensation is provided. Following attacks by wolves, in fact, in addition to the animals dispersing (and if the carcasses are not found the farmer is not even entitled to compensation) the stress suffered by the surviving animals must be taken into account which causes drastic reductions of milk production, all factors that cause enormous economic damage. Coldiretti, therefore, asks President Roberti, who assumes the responsibility for hunting, and the Agriculture Councilor Micone, not to ignore the issue, tackling it with the right determination, through a comparison with the breeding world, to start a clarification process and with it implementing a strategy that recognises, together with the sustainable presence and legitimate protection of the "real" wolf, the dignity of livestock operators within an ecosystem which, we would like to remind you, precisely thanks to them has ever run the risk of becoming a jungle (source: Coldiretti).