Take a bit of banality and clichés about hunting; a pinch of false do-goodness, which given its provenance smacks of mockery - hunters are elderly, they must be protected -; a spoonful of spirit of revenge - "why them yes and we not?" -; a glass full of imagination - ecological methods, which everyone knows to be instead of proven ineffectiveness -; an abundant ladle of alarmism, where they are masters - epidemic risk, give it to the greaser -; tie everything with abundant sauce of ideology and voilà, the dish of Lake on the boar hunt to be served to right-thinking people and companions of snacks is ready. Too bad that the complaint prepared by the League for the abolition of the Hunt against the Marche Region is an indigestible recipe even inedible for anyone, instead of being guided by preconceptions, applies reason and common sense.
Without repeating things known and known to everyone, even if perhaps not to him, we remind the delegate Lac Danilo Baldini, that what he defines "a completely arbitrary interpretation by the Regions" is the opinion of the Prefectures - maximum representation of the Government on the territory and not of the local hunting club - who have recognized, and not once, the public utility of hunting in general and that with wild boar in particular. Hunting and containment, two legally very different actions but both essential to limit the number of wild boars, which cause serious damage to agricultural production, represent a serious threat to road traffic and, especially at this time, constitute a possible vehicle for the spread of African swine fever.
In our region, Coldiretti has repeatedly complained of the damage caused to crops by herds of wild boars - which mostly take refuge in parks and protected areas - despite the action of breeders, who alone are not sufficient to reduce their number. How insufficient even the most effective deterrent methods are - and we don't even want to address the question of imaginative solutions, as contraceptives or the like - the fact that herds more and more often tear down the electrified fences placed to protect the fields, testifying to this, adding damage to the damage for agricultural enterprises. Coldiretti Marche - again not the hunting club under the house - has estimated, on data from the regional hunting report, damage to 2,5 million euros between 2013 and 2017. Of this figure, about 2 million were caused by wild boars. And in these three years they have increased again and not a little.
As far as we are concerned, the arguments on the need for the hunting activity of the teams, as well as the parallel activity of control and containment, seem to us more than sufficient. Let's leave out the other theses exposed, so biased that they don't even deserve to be commented on. However, we want to close with a reassurance to representatives of Lac evidently so concerned about the health of the hunters. We at Federcaccia were the first to be concerned, still in the first phase of the pandemic and closed hunting, to draw up, with the help of medical sources, a series of very precise and effective practical indications, responding to all the government indications regarding the prevention of spread of the virus, and to spread them among our subscribers e among hunters in general, with particular attention to those who practice collective hunts. And the members of the wild boar hunting teams are among those who responded best, thanks also to their internal organization and the sense of responsibility of the foremen, adapting or avoiding those phases where it was more difficult to respect the health precepts contained in the various circulars of the health authorities. national.
Hunting is natural distancing, practiced in open and solitary places, far from other people and crowds, so easy and common instead in urban areas and in normal everyday activities, a situation under the eyes of all. So be calm Baldini. We thank him for his concerns about our health, but definitely he'd better turn his attention elsewhere instead of justifying with Covid the umpteenth attempt to close the hunt, the only true thought of Lac and its companion associations.