Wild Boar Hunting: Maremma, There is a delicate balance between agriculture, environmental protection, and hunting. In Maremma it broke, and farmers make their voices heard.
Wild boars have become a danger, at least in some areas of the Maremma, where farmers, damaged by the ungulate and tired of being victims of situations, asked for help.
This is why the Chamber's Agriculture Commission has inaugurated and completed a comprehensive investigation into the phenomenon, focusing on the damage caused by wildlife to agriculture.
At the end of the maxi fact-finding investigation, complete information was acquired that should allow the right measures to be taken. From the research in the field, the agricultural and zootechnical productions damaged, the location of the phenomenon, the quantification in economic terms of the damage, the animal species affected by the phenomenon appear clear.
On the other hand, the investigation lasted more than six months and did not neglect to listen to all the protagonists of the story, from environmental associations to hunting ones, from representatives of agricultural professional organizations to the Union of Provinces of Italy. the association of municipalities of Italy and the representatives of the Conference of the Regions.
The first data that leap to the eye are those relating to the damage caused by wildlife to agriculture and the consequent negative impact on the economy of agricultural enterprises.
The need, confirmed by many, is that of a new and more effective policy for the management and control of wild animals by the institutions. A profound change of course is required to help rebalance the presence of wildlife according to social and economic needs.
The issue around which everything revolves is agricultural activity, hunting and the protection of fauna and the environment. The equilibrium will be guaranteed only thanks to a new wildlife hunting planning and thanks to a planning of the hunting activity that brings the quantity of ungulates present in the territory to acceptable figures.
At the end of the works it was the Commission itself that underlined how it is desirable that a new strategy be adopted for the management of wild boar, which allows to rebalance the number of specimens present in the area.
For now, the presence of the problem has simply been recognized, which is also widespread throughout the peninsula. For concrete actions we will still have to wait.