Twenty-five farms of San Floriano del Collio (Gorizia) complain of considerable damage to their vineyards, caused by the raids of wild boars, but also roe deer. They quantified the damage "appraised for each company: higher than 2 thousand euros per hectare per year ". A problem, underline the companies, which has been repeated for some time. At this point they presented a letter asking the Region to "dismiss" the hunters from the hunting area and to appoint "a new family". The question, in fact, calls into question a culling of animals deemed insufficient. A situation "now unsustainable and no longer postponable".
The letter was forwarded to the governor Massimiliano Fedriga, as well as to the Collio hunting district, to the Structure for hunting wildlife management of Gorizia, at the Hunting and Fish Resources Service. The signatory companies represent a total area of 326 hectares of vineyards. And they specify: "The hunting district of Gisbana, contiguous, a hamlet of San Floriano, is managed by another family of hunters, in which there is no damage caused by game. All of us, on the other hand, suffer damage that increases exponentially from year to year, in the face of the raids of wild boars and roe deer. They cause devastation, from the planting of cuttings, uprooted by wild boars, to the budding of rooted cuttings and vineyards in production eaten by roe deer, eliminating production and canceling the growth of young vines.
When the grapes are ripe, they are decimated ». The companies have also installed deterrence "barriers" around the properties: "We placed electric fences and then fenced our vineyards with electro-welded nets, but without obtaining a tangible result: the game still manages to penetrate inside, destroying the crop ». They reasoned in comparative terms: «A Giasbana, Zegla, Plessiva, Cormons, Corno di Rosazzo, Dolegna del Collio, Scriò, Vencò, there are no complaints about damage caused by wild boars and roe deer, this is demonstrated by the fact that no electric fences or nets have been placed electro-welded". And again: "For years we have represented the situation to the hunters, but the answers are always the same: everything is under control, we have killed enough animals".
The director of the reserve Yuri Klanjschek he recalled that last December 14 the companies had been invited to a meeting: «The promoters of the initiative did not participate. The Coldiretti representative who was present defined our reserve as virtuous, having always respected the plan for killing the animals, with additional interventions. In the hunting year 2018-2019 in the face of an original culling plan of 76 heads, we have obtained and carried out the killing of 110 animals. In the following year there were 90.vintage 2020/2021 the numbers have dropped due to a smaller presence of wild boars in the area, but already this year they have increased significantly. The wild boar - he says - knows no state borders e administrative boundaries between reserves.
I don't know how much it would take to replace the hunters, precisely because the factors involved are different. Rather, we hope that hunting will be extended over the whole year, as happens in Slovenia". Klaniscek observes: «Our intent was to invite companies to sign a letter with us for the Region, in addressing the problems together. We want to continue to maintain the best relationships and we always remain ready to share issues with winemakers. The initiative adopted seems to me a persistence against our reserve that I cannot understand "(The small).