Confagriculture Umbria That of the containment of wild boars which can now also be practiced through selection hunting is a further and important step forward useful «to review and insert fundamental tools to pursue the right goal of a satisfactory coexistence of the farmer's rights to cultivate and breed, of environmental issues and of hunting ”. The president Fabio Rossi, on behalf of the farmers' association, applauds the proposal of the new Regulation, approved by the Regional Council, for the management of hunting of ungulates.
In this way, the extension of the species that can be taken with selection hunting also to wild boars - as well as to roe deer, fallow deer and red deer - is inserted with the aim of implementing measures to reduce the great diffusion of these in the Umbrian territory that is the cause from damage to agricultural production and risk for the safety of people and for road safety. According to Confagricoltura Umbria, it is also necessary that the Region immediately study experiments, even on pilot areas, of innovative strategies to study the effectiveness of intervention tools to ensure the resolution of the critical issues related to the wild boar species: “In our opinion, it is an unavoidable step to come up with an overall strategy for governing the phenomenon” comments Rossi.
Confagricoltura, with its experts, is therefore ready to make itself available to the regional administration and is certain that a responsible response to a general call. "On the other hand, in this period of particular crisis - concludes Rossi - there is also the very high risk that African swine fever, already present in central Europe with very dangerous outbreaks, can arrive through a population of wild boars out of control, which would destroy the sector of the production and processing of pork. Furthermore, in the face of the serious economic crisis, the loss of food production due to the devastating interventions of the wild appears unacceptable because it throws other parts of the real economy into despair besides those we see every day in the media ».