Hunting and Fauna: Umbria, wild boar emergency, exasperated farmers indicate a petition "In spring no sowing" and ask for "urgent and extraordinary interventions to contain ungulates".
It is now red alert. Exasperated by the constant incursions of wild boars into their farms, a large group of farmers from the Upper Tiber Valley, members of the CIA of Umbria, presented a petition to the President of the Region, the Councilor for Agriculture and Hunting, the prefect of Perugia, the president of the province and the mayors of the most affected municipalities to ask for "urgent and extraordinary containment interventions". “Because - writes the CIA in a note - the actions implemented so far have proved to be perfectly useless. Even hunting has proved ineffective: a few days after the end of the hunt, in fact, when a decrease in their presence should be evident, the boars the countryside continues to rage and there are reports of damage to crops ”. The situation, explain the farmers, "is truly unsustainable also due to the objective difficulties faced by agricultural businesses, grappling with old and new problems accentuated by the effects of the general economic crisis that has been going on for years".
The farmers of the Upper Tiber are "seriously thinking, therefore, not to carry out the spring sowings, aware that the fruit of their work and their investments will go to the wild boars". At the height of exasperation, therefore, they signed a petition, "yet another cry of alarm but also a reminder to the competent Authorities not to persevere in the underestimation of these circumstances and to put in place immediately, starting from the discussion to be held tomorrow in the Faunal-Hunting Consultation on the Regulations for wild boar hunting, extraordinary actions to contain the species.
This is to allow not only agricultural entrepreneurs, but also all those who live and work in rural areas (numerous road accidents caused by wild boars), to live peacefully and carry out their activities normally ".
(March 11, 2015)
Source: PerugiaToday