- road accidents caused by wildlife and especially by wild boars, sadly returned to the news in the aftermath of the tragic event onhighway A1, between Lodi and Castelpusterlengo. As always happens in this country, we have had to witness the usual sequence of accusations and counter-accusations in a rebound of responsibility that often leaves us baffled. To a complex phenomenon and the result of a large series of contributing causes, simplistic and sometimes unacceptable readings have been given, especially when there is a tendency to pour all responsibility onto the hunters, leaving out any analysis that refers to the treatment of the problem in terms of wildlife - environmental management.
The wild boars on the roundabouts and among the bins of Rome and other large cities, they are not the result of a "cynical and barbaric" destiny but rather the consequence of a series of environmental changes and legislative delays to which the public administration and the interested categories have often not been able to find the correct answers. Unlike others who in recent days have disclosed the news with a polemical spirit and clear instrumental intentions, the Confederation of Tuscan Hunters considers it appropriate to publish below an interesting study in the hope of making a serious and objective contribution on this delicate topic. How and why the wild boars arrived on the A1 motorway in the section between Lodi and Casalpusterlengo on 3 January, causing a deadly carom is a demanding and complex question that it underlies and provides for an equally demanding and complex response.
We are therefore wary of simple or simplistic answers, with a blameworthy effect (of the series it is the fault of the hunters, it is the fault of the parks, it is the fault of the environmentalists) because the increase of wild boars in Italy, in truth not only of those but of all wild ungulates, is a complex natural phenomenon, which occurs on a European biogeographical scale and is linked to an explosive and synergistic blend of natural, social and macroeconomic factors who have been operating for at least 50-70 years and which cannot and must not be reduced to identifying guilty offenders or scapegoats (for example, hunters) as guilty of the crime.
This last one (it's the hunters' fault) can be a convenient, simplistic, easy to understand, emotional impact and easily assimilated by all those who ignore the matter, but it is only the finger on which we focus, losing sight of the moon. If you have the patience to read the following, you will also understand why. It is a long study edited by Dr. Federico Morimando (Natural Sciences and Zoology).