This morning's episode of the broadcast "Melog - Meridian Chronicles" di radio 24 had as a guest the president of Federcaccia Gian Luca Dall'Olio, intervened to talk about thewild boar emergency in our country. In particular, the theme was that of the problem of ungulates in Italy, of the solution that was proposed by objective law of Tuscany and the latest reactions from public opinion. In fact, there is a lot of talk about the group of artists and intellectuals who are clamoring for alternative solutions to the slaughter of wild boars.
As explained by Dall'Olio, this abatement must never occur indiscriminately, but always in a targeted way and in cases where it should become necessary, both in free land and in protected areas. Furthermore, the hypothesis of protected areas must lead to talk of control and not of hunting, also because the modalities of carrying out are decided on the basis of the situation, with only trained and prepared hunters who can be involved. According to Federcaccia's number one, this is the only way to solve the problem of the imbalance that arises from the point of view of numbers and damages caused to the agricultural sector.
For Dall'Olio, moreover, if there were no hunters and hunting the emergency would become even more serious. During the broadcast he also intervened Massimo Vitturi, representative of the Lav (Anti-Vivisection League), according to which the best solution would be to use electric fences to confine vegetable gardens and agricultural fields: one listener pointed out that he is a supporter of the animal rights association, but that he considered these fences useless, preferring, as a farmer, the killing of supernumerary heads.
Andrew Monaco, a specialist in the management of problems and in the restoration of biodiversity in the Lazio Region, has instead rejected the ideas suggested by the movement that supports wild boars, such as contraceptive feeds and natural predators (in Italy it would be exclusively the wolf). Marco Remaschi, Councilor for Agriculture of the Tuscany Region, explained what the aims of the objective law mentioned above are.
The proposal does not serve to exterminate the ungulate population in the territory, but to face a problem that can no longer be denied and the most immediate answer is currently represented by hunters and control operations. The appeal to the governor of Tuscany, Enrico Rossi, to stop the law (250 thousand wild boar, fallow deer and roe deer to be killed within three years), was signed to important names in culture including Franco Battiato, Dacia Maraini, Giorgio Panariello and David Riondino.