Management of wildlife species
"The national plan for the management of wild species can no longer be postponed". This is what Coldiretti says in commenting on the case of a woman attacked by a wolf in the Lucca area, which follows the death of the runner caused by a bear in Trentino. Two episodes that represent the tip of the iceberg of an out-of-control situation where – Coldiretti denounces – it is now necessary to protect the citizens but also to save the thousands of sheep and goats mauled, cows with their throats slaughtered and donkeys killed along the whole Peninsula where the presence of the wolf it has multiplied in recent years with the repetition of massacres in farms that have forced the closure of activities and abandonment of the mountain. The wolf population is increasing sharply from north to south and is estimated by Ispra - underlines Coldiretti - at around 3.300 specimens, 950 in the Alpine regions and almost 2.400 along the rest of the peninsula. The numbers seem to confirm that the wolf is no longer in danger and - underlines Coldiretti - they commit the institutions to define a national plan that looks at what other EU countries such as France and Switzerland have done for the defense of farmers and animals bred.
A series of reports
But in recent years - underlines Coldiretti - there has also been an increase in the presence of bears with about 100 specimens in Trentino with an increase also in the area occupied by individual young males who have been reported as far as Piedmont, in the border areas between Tyrol and Bavaria and in Friuli Venezia Giulia, according to the latest report drawn up by the large carnivores sector of the Wildlife Service of the Autonomous Province of Trento. Without forgetting that Italy is invaded by 2,3 million wild boars in cities and in the countryside where urgent action is needed to contain them to defend the safety of people and agricultural production. The herds - Coldiretti underlines - are moving ever closer to homes and schools, up to parks, destroying crops, attacking animals, besieging stables, causing road accidents with deaths and injuries and scratching through waste with obvious health risks.
Lost biodiversity
The real risk today is - Coldiretti denounces - the disappearance of the man's presence in the mountains and inland areas due to the abandonment of thousands of families but also of many young people who have laboriously returned to restore the lost biodiversity with the recovery of the historic Italian breeds of cows, goats and sheep. You serve responsibility in the defense of farms, shepherds and breeders who courageously continue to guard the mountains and guarantee the beauty of the landscape. Without pastures - concludes Coldiretti - the mountains die, the environment deteriorates and landslides and floods threaten the cities (Source COLDIRETTI).