Hunting and Fauna: Basilicata, conference on wild boar management in the Lucanian Apennine Park; highly sensitive topic for farmers, hunting associations and institutions responsible for environmental protection.
Manage the implications related to the presence of wild boars in protected areas and try to transform the problem into an opportunity. This is the common thread around which the conference that took place yesterday in Marsico Nuovo on the theme “Program for the management of wild boar in the Lucanian Apennine Park” revolved. Around the table - explains a note - institutional representatives, experts and representatives of category and environmental associations who responded to the invitation of the Park Authority to explore a highly sensitive issue for farmers, hunting associations and institutions responsible for environmental protection . The regional and national representatives of Federparchi Totaro and Sammuri have opened and closed the works to demonstrate the sensitivity that the managing bodies of the protected areas have towards the issue.
The president of the Lucano Appennine Park, and coordinator of Federparchi Basilicata, Domenico Totaro, introduced the general lines of the problem, mentioning the interventions that the Park Authority is adopting in this regard. Rosalia Botta, head of the Nature Office of the Park Authority, the mayor of Marsico Nuovo Domenico Vita, Federico Morimando, naturalist and collaborator of Federparchi, who traced the historical and natural path through which the whole of Europe passed from few wild boar settlements from the early 900s to the very high diffusion of today, Egidio Mallia, faunist and veterinarian of the Gallipoli Cognato Park, Carlo Gilio of the Environment Department of the Region, the head of the CTA of the State Forestry Corps Mario Guariglia, Rocco Sileo dell 'Alsia, Manfredelli, Carbone and Pisani for the world of agriculture, representing the hunters Antonio Trombetta of the ATC n. 2, the Provincial Councilor for Hunting and Fishing Nicola Figliuolo, the person in charge of the protected areas of Legambiente Antonio Nicoletti.
In conclusion, President Sammuri referred to the fauna damage limitation project relating to the ministerial directive on biodiversity to which Federparchi will work by putting together managing bodies of protected areas in various parts of Italy. Training for those called to intervene in the capture and a non-ideological approach to the problem, which allows the interventions to be modulated considering the expected benefits, were the themes with which the president of Federaparchi closed the conference.
9 April 2013
Basilicata region