Spending program
La Veneto Region has approved an experimental project to increase the effectiveness of nutria control and eradication actions throughout the region. This is the first tranche of 500.000 euros for the current year as part of a spending program that will be developed over the three-year period 2025-2027 with a total allocation of 1,5 million euros: 500 thousand euros for each year. The novelty is the choice to assign a leading role to the Land Reclamation Consortia and the Basin Authorities, custodians of internal waterways, with the aim of optimizing efforts to combat nutria, a species that is particularly harmful to the environment, especially for the hydrogeological stability of the territory in the event of extreme weather events. The project was approved by resolution of the Regional Council, on the proposal of the regional councilor for Hunting, Cristiano Corazzari. Each Consortium will sign an experimental agreement with the Veneto Region that will initially last until December 31, 2025.
Maintaining the banks
"The nutria is a species that has had an enormous expansion in Veneto, finding its ideal habitat in an area characterized by the large number of waterways, and the harmful impact it causes is clear to everyone, between the danger to the stability of the banks and the devastation of crops - explains the Councilor for Hunting Cristiano Corazzari -. The situation is becoming increasingly critical and this is why the Region has chosen to intervene with this experimental project that aims to increase culling and have greater control over the distribution and effects of the species on the territory. The Land Reclamation Consortia active in the regional territory become privileged implementing bodies of the Regional Nutria Control Plan, a plan already approved in 2021, with the task of composing and managing the teams of operators authorized to carry out control, promoting operational coordination with the Provincial Police, organizing the disposal of carcasses, collecting and processing information on captured animals".
In-depth knowledge of the territory
The second innovation introduced by the project is the allocation of lump sum contributions to voluntary operators involved in control operations. They include a mileage allowance, a reimbursement for the cartridges used, and a fee of 3 euros for each animal slaughtered and delivered to the storage center. Those who deliver at least ten animals per trip will be rewarded. Furthermore, it is expected that the costs eligible for reimbursement will include insurance costs, the gun license tax, the annual ATC or CA registration fee, and those for the purchase of certain accident prevention equipment functional to the exercise of control activities. “Thanks to the provision of specific contributions to voluntary controllers, we aim to increase the effectiveness of the Nutria Control Plan,” adds Corazzari. “We firmly believe in the role of the Land Reclamation Consortia, bodies that not only have in-depth knowledge of the territory thanks to their daily monitoring of watercourses and their maintenance duties, but also have a privileged dialogue with farmers. Furthermore, they have an optimal scope of intervention, and as bodies of supra-municipal scope, they operate within an ideal territorial dimension to intervene also in agreement with the individual Municipalities involved.” Finally, the plan provides for ANBI Veneto, the regional association that brings together the Land Reclamation Consortia, to collect data to prepare a report on a regional scale that takes a snapshot of the progress of interventions in Veneto.
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