“I express great satisfaction and thank you, as a citizen rather than as president of the hunting association, for the initiative of the Conference of Regions and Autonomous Provinces who this morning took a stand onwild boar emergency urging the implementation of measures - in particular the modification of the 157/92, which allow the extension of the wild boar hunting period and the possibility for the Regions to carry out control and selection plans in the protected areas - which for too long have been unnecessarily awaited and requested ".
Thus the President of Federcaccia Massimo Buconi commented on this morning's press conference in Rome in which Federico Caner - Councilor of the Veneto Region and Coordinator of the Agricultural Policy Commission of the Conference of Regions - gave voice to growing concern of local institutions against the now disproportionate number of wild boars and the consequences for agriculture, public safety and health that these represent.
"We need to overcome the extremism of an extremist part of the environmentalist world and deal with the reality and the numbers of the wild boar emergency" said Caner, hitting in full the real obstacle to the management of this as well as other problematic species, but also of the "normal administration" of a heritage that belongs to all citizens and not only to a part that has proclaimed itself its only guardian with right of choice and veto, even against scientific evidence and objective reality.
"On the part of Federcaccia - concludes Buconi - we renew, as always, the maximum availability throughout the national territory to collaborate with the institutions hoping that the legislative intervention invoked today in a clear way and without the possibility of misunderstanding by all the regional councilors is finally taken allowing us to lend even more and better that irreplaceable management function at the service of the environment and society which, despite a thousand difficulties and bureaucratic obstacles, we already accomplish "(Hunting Federation).