Hunting in Tuscany: The province of Livorno declares war on wild boars and asks for help from hunters and farmers.
In a statement released today the Province of Livorno highlights that "the problems caused by the massive presence of ungulates in the provincial territory were at the center of the meetings promoted by the councilors for hunting, agriculture and tourism". For the two provincial councilors Ringo Anselmi (hunting) and Paolo Pacini (agriculture and tourism) they met with the representatives of the agricultural sector associations and, subsequently, with the territorial hunting area (Atc) 9 and the district heads of the wild boar batting teams.
The territory of the ATC 9 includes the municipalities of Livorno, Collesalvetti, Rosignano Marittimo, Cecina, Bibbona, Castagneto Carducci, San Vincenzo, Sassetta, Campiglia Marittima, Suvereto and Piombino and also of Capraia Isola where, however, there are no wild boars. The other Livorno provincial ATC is 10, the one that includes the 8 municipalities of the island of Elba, where the problem of wild boars imported by hunters in the XNUMXs is even more serious.
"The issues highlighted - say the two councilors - concern, in particular, the extensive damage to crops caused by wild boars, but also the dangers due to the excessive approach of animals to inhabited centers and roads, especially in the height of the summer season with the presence of numerous tourists. From the meetings it emerged, therefore, the need to proceed with a new campaign of killing and capturing to reduce the population of ungulates as much as possible. In this sense, all the participating subjects, and called for various reasons to intervene on the problem, agreed on the importance of working in close collaboration to promptly activate both interventions aimed at limiting the number of animals, and the measures envisaged to dissuade the approach. of animals to crops and homes ".
The district chiefs of the hunters have guaranteed the collaboration of all 22 teams active in the area, with outings, scheduled with the participation of the provincial police, which will take place in August and in the first ten days of September.
The province maintains that "the goal is to kill and / or capture a very large number of animals, such as to significantly lower the pressure of the presence of these animals on the territory".
The provincial administration also intends to involve farmers and "will also activate the procedures provided for by the regulations, which authorize the owners of the farms to intervene directly with the killing of the animals that enter their land, after reporting to the provincial guards".
Source: Green Report