"Presence of nourish increasing in the area, as well as i damage caused in the countryside and to infrastructures, in particular canals and embankments, with a strongly negative impact on crops and on hydrogeological stability of the territory". To report it is Coldiretti Ravenna which points the index against "a totally uncontrolled proliferation of otters, such as to worsen every day that passes risk of hydrogeological instability and to threaten the water tightness of a territory made more and more fragile by the continuous climatic displacements that occur with increasingly intense and frequent rainfall, storms, hailstorms and windstorms".
"To make even more precarious an environmental balance already compromised by 'climate-change' and by overbuilding and abandonment - explains Coldiretti - there are also the damage caused by the nutria that creating their burrows near canals and embankments they cause collapses and floods, but also phenomena of lowering of farm roads which, in addition to making the transit of tractors difficult and dangerous, seriously endanger the safety of all citizens ”.
“The damage to the hydraulic network, in fact - comments the Director of Coldiretti Ravenna, Assuero Zampini - obviously reverberates on the stability and integrity of the banks of canals and rivers, with the problem of instability that has worsened in recent years of torrential rains. It is therefore necessary - he concludes - to intervene in a more incisive and targeted way in order to block the uncontrolled proliferation of nutria ”.