Ettore Prandini's comment
Finally a concrete measure to put an end to the uncontrolled multiplication of wild boars in Italy where there is one for every twenty-six inhabitants, for a total of 2,3 million specimens, which endanger the health, work and safety of Italians with one accident every 41 hours caused by wildlife. This was stated by the president of Coldiretti Ettore Prandini in reference to the law on wild boars approved within the Maneuver under discussion in the House.
Dangerous accidents
The herds - underlines Prandini - are moving closer and closer to homes and schools, up to parks, destroying crops, attacking animals, besieging stables, causing road accidents with deaths and injuries and scavenging among waste with obvious health risks. The situation has become unsustainable in the city and in the countryside with incalculable economic damage to agricultural production but - continues Prandini - the environmental balance of vast territorial ecosystems in areas of naturalistic value is also compromised with the loss of both animal and vegetable biodiversity without forgetting the risks for farms and Made in Italy at the table with the spread of the African plague.
Recourse to culls
The invasion of streets and squares by wild animals is experienced by citizens as a real emergency, so much so that more than eight Italians out of 10 (81%) - according to the Coldiretti/Ixè survey - think it should be tackled with the use of killings, above all by appointing specialized personnel to reduce their number also because one Italian adult out of four (26%) has come face to face with these animals. In the last ten years, however, the number of serious accidents with deaths and injuries caused by animals has practically doubled (+81%) on provincial roads according to the Coldiretti estimate based on Aci Istat data. If in the cities many inhabitants are forced to live in fear - concludes Coldiretti -, in the countryside the presence of wild boars has already caused the abandonment of 800 thousand hectares of fertile land which today, in addition to no longer being productive, is exposed to erosion and to hydrogeological instability.