“The European Union supports the farmers and businesses that are victims of wolf attacks”This is the title of the new question sent to the European Commission today, signed by the parliamentarians Marco Dreosto and Susanna Ceccardi, who urgently ask for an increase in the financial allocations dedicated to compensation in favor of the farmers who are victims of wolf attacks. In Italy over the past few years, the wolf population has grown beyond all expectations, causing a death of cattle with extensive damage to farmers.
Not only - the parliamentarians explain - there is direct but also indirect damage, which negatively affects the entire rural system, in particular in the internal areas of the territories and in the mountain areas, sustained, in the characteristic landscape and biodiversity, by the territorial management of agro-forestry-pastoral activities. Due to the consequent risk of abandonment of the territories intended for breeding, Ceccardi and Dreosto also asked whether the Commission intends to consider indirect damage as well, as a consequence of the attacks of the wolves.
In the meantime, the number of wolves is growing, in the center and in the north: Ceccardi highlighted that from a 2017 survey by the Tuscany Region, the wolf packs present were 110, Dreosto instead pointed out the situation of Veneto, Trentino and Friuli Venezia Giulia, referring to the latest data for December, which indicate the (probably underestimated) presence of over one hundred specimens of wolves in the north-eastern area.