A real invasion
With Italy invaded by 2,3 million wild boars, it is an alarm for the safety of people in the countryside and cities with herds that go into urban centers, between parked cars, wheelchairs with children and the elderly who go to the expense. This is what Coldiretti affirms in reference to the raid of a herd of wild boars in a kindergarten class with teacher and pupils from Bussi sul Tirino in the province of Pescara. Herds of wild boars - underlines Coldiretti - are pushing ever closer to homes and schools, to parks, destroying crops, attacking animals, besieging stables, causing road accidents with dead and wounded people and scratching through the waste with obvious risks for Health. The situation has become unsustainable in the city and in the countryside with incalculable economic damage to agricultural production but - Coldiretti underlines - the environmental balance of vast territorial ecosystems in areas of naturalistic value is also compromised with the loss of both animal and plant biodiversity.
The Coldiretti investigation
The invasion of streets and squares by wild people is experienced by citizens as a real emergency, so much so that over eight out of 10 Italians (81%) - according to the Coldiretti / Ixè survey - think that it must be addressed with recourse to killing, especially by hiring specialized personnel to reduce the number also because one in four Italian adults (26%) came face to face with these animals. In the last year there has been an accident every 41 hours with 13 victims and 261 seriously injured due to the invasion of wild boars and wild animals that stop at nothing, according to Coldiretti's analysis of Asaps data, In the last ten over the years, the number of serious accidents with deaths and injuries caused by animals has practically doubled (+ 81%) on provincial roads according to Coldiretti estimates based on Aci Istat data.
A threat to the population
69% of Italians believe that wild boars are too numerous while there is even a 58% who consider them a real threat to the population, as well as a serious problem for crops and environmental balance as 75 thinks. % of respondents. The result is that over six out of 10 Italians (62%) have a real fear of it and almost half (48%) would not even take a home in an area infested with wild boars. "The majority of Italians consider the excessive presence of wild animals a real national emergency that affects the safety of people as well as the economy and work, especially in the most disadvantaged areas", denounces the president of Coldiretti Ettore Prandini in underlining the 'need "for targeted and large-scale interventions to reduce the threat of wild boars at national level" (source: Coldiretti).