Singular scenes
With herds soaking in the canals in search of refreshment and to drink, there is a red alert in the countryside with the raids of wild boars in search of food and water, which is why it is necessary to immediately apply the extraordinary management and containment plan of the wildlife in Puglia. This is what Coldiretti Puglia says, in relation to the massive presence of wild boars recorded in the province of Taranto, with the singular scenes of wild boars bathing in the canals, which in packs move in the countryside and on the roads, a phenomenon that must be contained with the instrument of the extraordinary regional plan for the management and containment of wild fauna in Puglia, starting with the wild boar species ('Sus scrofa'), approved by the Regional Council of Puglia, strongly supported by Coldiretti who also applied pressure with the demonstration of thousands of farmers under the Regional Palace.
Risks to health
The packs of wild boars - underlines Coldiretti Puglia - are increasingly coming closer to homes and schools, even to parks, destroying crops, attacking animals, besieging stables, causing road accidents with deaths and injuries and rummaging through waste with obvious health risks. The situation has become unsustainable in cities and in the countryside with incalculable economic damage to agricultural production but - underlines Coldiretti - the environmental balance of vast territorial ecosystems in areas of naturalistic value is also compromised with the loss of both animal and plant biodiversity. A real emergency that puts the safety and health of motorists at risk due to the presence of wild animals and wild boars, which can weigh up to a quintal and a half and be 150 centimeters long. A fear - underlines Coldiretti Puglia - that is spreading from the hills to the plains, from the areas near the basins to those on the sea.
Management and containment
The extraordinary plan - which concerns all wild fauna, with particular attention to wild boars - accompanies the PRIU, which the Puglia Region has been equipped with since 2022, adapting it to national regulations, in a joint effort between the regional department of Agriculture and the Environment, with the system of regional and national parks and the Natura 2000 Networks, the representatives of farmers, gathered around a coordination table with consultative and proactive functions in matters of management and containment of wild fauna, with the tasks of examining the achievement of targets for the mitigation of impacts and potential risks caused by the Sus scrofa species on human activities, the environment and biodiversity, and of reconnaissance of the activities implemented by the management bodies of national and regional parks.
Not just wild boars
With Puglia invaded by 250 thousand wild boars, there is not only the plague of wild boars, but it is an alarm for the safety of people in the countryside and cities with packs that push right into urban centers, among parked cars, strollers with children and elderly people going to do the shopping, with the areas of the Murgia barese and tarantina, of the Gargano and of the Daunia sub-Apennines - insists Coldiretti Puglia - become the Eldorado of wild boars that devastate the crops devouring Altamura lentils. grass peas, broad beans, chickpeas and peas, broccoli, vegetables, newly sown seedlings of fava beans and wheat, grapes especially on espalier vines, fruit shaking the trees, all the undergrowth and the biodiversity of the woods and parks. In Puglia, the damage caused by wild fauna is enormous, with wild boars destroying crops and attacking humans and farm animals, as well as feral wolves and dogs, starlings wiping out olive production and destroying pitches, hares literally devouring entire fields of vegetables, cormorants eating fish in aquaculture plants, green parrots feeding on fruit and almonds and the killer of the seas, the blue crab, which exterminates clams, mussels, eggs, other fish and molluscs, with an overall estimated damage of over 30 million euros (source: Coldiretti Puglia).
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