Yesterday, Thursday 28 July 2016, the Lombardy Regional Council passed a motion to open the wild boar hunting in the Province of Lecco. As reported by Lecco News, the adviser of the Northern League Antonello Formenti explained the importance of this decision. The Lecco area will in fact be protected like other territories by increasingly serious damage caused by ungulates. The figures for the past three years are impressive, as claims have increased threefold, with an overall sum in the past from 15 thousand to 43 thousand euros.
Furthermore, according to Formenti, the initiatives adopted so far have not produced any useful results. Efforts have been made to contain the proliferation of wild boars in the Valsassina, Valvarrone and in the Colico area, but nothing has changed. The councilor asked the governor Roberto Maroni to take every measure to allow hunters to take animals in the province already from the next hunting season.
In the Lecco area this opening of hunting had always been avoided and the focus was more on authorized culls. Since April the Region has become competent, putting aside the decisions of the province. Now we await a concrete response from the “Pirellone” and concrete details as regards hunting wild boars.