After the frost, the serial raids of wild boars. There is no peace for the fruit growers of the first hills of Faenza. What little had been spared by the late spring frosts has indeed become the lavish meal of ungulates who in recent days have raided the orchards that form the belt between the outskirts of the city and the first hills.
To report the damage, with a wealth of images and photographs taken by the owners of the funds themselves, numerous associates Coldiretti, now powerless in the face of the uncontrolled proliferation of wild animals: "Despite the investments in recent years in passive defense instruments, in particular special fences - complaint Dante Zauli, one of the farmers damaged by the 'visits' of the ungulates - the wild boars managed to penetrate the bottoms and literally destroy the nets first and then the new fruit plants ".
Unfortunately, even the proximity to protected areas does not facilitate the work of farmers: "Wild boars proliferate in areas subject to protection and then go far beyond the 'protected borders' feasting among the rows - says the Director of Coldiretti Ravenna, Assuero Zampini - it is therefore necessary to give new impetus to the control work carried out by the hill ATCs, which we thank for the good work done so far, but also to implement series, targeted, verified and verifiable actions for the prevention and containment of wild animals in protected areas because otherwise what bad weather saves almost mathematically becomes food for the wild with insult and injury for the farmer who is left with his hands and an empty wallet "