Hunting and Fauna: Trieste, wild boars invade the park of the Miramare Castle, devastating meadows and flower beds in search of food.
Inverted lawns and flower beds in the park of the Miramare Castle in Trieste. The traces left on the devastated land leave no doubt about the authors: the wild boars that came down from the hill in the evening hours in search of food. The frequentation of wild boars in the park, as in the whole provincial territory, had been known for some time but now the damage is increasingly noticeable; walking through the paths, near the main square and right in front of the castle, you can see the clods of earth moved by the snouts of the wild boars.
Observing the damage caused and the numerous and evident traces left, we realize that it is not one or two missing animals but a substantial herd of hungry wild boars that came down from the Karst towards the sea to look for food. The situation was noticed a few days ago by the former mayor, Roberto Dipiazza, who said, “I was walking there with my dog Ted and as a hunter I immediately noticed those strange loose parts in the ground. There is no doubt that they are wild boars: they are creating significant damage ”.
For now there is no concrete danger for visitors to the park as wild boars generally move in search of food, especially at dusk; they turn the soil over, pulling off large clods, rooting with their snouts in search of insects, roots and tubers. Impossible not to recognize the signs of the passage of these ungulates.
The lawns and flower beds of the park are completely devastated, they look more like a plowed land, and the damage will be even more evident when with the arrival of spring in the flower beds, flowers and other landscaping plants will be planted which will constitute a lavish dinner for the wild boars that they will not hesitate to turn the soil in search of bulbs and roots.
A few years ago the problem in the park was the roe deer that at night reached the flower beds covered with flowers to eat the colored petals; damage to destroyed plants reached some tens of thousands of euros. In fact, now there are very few seedlings and the park's flower beds are quite bare despite the cleaning and regeneration work carried out recently by teams of gardeners.
2 January 2013