The Province of Viterbo approves the establishment of a technical table to prevent damage caused by wildlife as proposed by the Department of Agriculture and Hunting.
The Provincial Council unanimously approved the proposed agenda of the Provincial Councilor for Agriculture and Hunting Franco Simeone, with the proposal already discussed and approved by the Agriculture and Environment commissions, for the prevention of damage to crops caused by fauna wild.
With the proposal, addressed to the president of the Lazio Region Renata Polverini, to the regional councilors Angela Birindelli (Agriculture) and Marco Mattei (Environment) the Provincial Council requested the establishment of a technical-political table, with the involvement of ISPRA (Higher Institute for Environmental Protection and Research) and park management bodies, representatives of the agricultural world and hunters, in order to take extraordinary and urgent measures to limit as much as possible the damage to agriculture produced by wildlife.
Prevention work that has now become essential in consideration of the scarce financial resources made available by the Region, no longer sufficient to cover the damage ascertained in the territory. The Provincial Council also requested that the University of Tuscia be included in this table, in the person of Professor Andrea Amici, who is collaborating in the drafting of the hunting wildlife plan and has drawn up the three-year management study of the wild boar species.
“In the course of 2008 - explained the commissioner Simeone - damages of € 646.000,00 were estimated in the two hunting territories of our province; in 2009 the damages amounted to € 516.000,00, in 2010 to € 537.000,00, while the data relating to 2011 are still being processed ”. "Given the scarcity of financial resources available to public bodies - added Simeone - also in our province there are appeals with the issuance of injunctive decrees with which the Lazio Region was ordered to pay, in addition to the damage, of all the interest accrued over the years and of the legal costs ".
Judgment no. 57 of 15/02/2011 reads: "In defense of the legal validity of the claim to a reduction in compensation, it must be considered that the Region is required to pay the residue as it is obliged to make funds available for the management of wildlife and for the damage caused by it, and in any case as responsible, pursuant to art. "
"Despite the enormous effort made by all interested parties (farmers - hunters) and by the provincial offices - continues Simeone - the phenomenon of damage is assuming disastrous proportions, which makes preventive action on a large scale inevitable, which must necessarily be planned in a specific technical political table with the Region and all the interested parties ".
This proposal was shared with fellow Environment Councilor Paolo Equitani, with the President of the Agriculture Commission Bruno Capitoni and with all the provincial councilors whom I thank for understanding the need to change the type of approach to the problem. The compensation policy - concluded the commissioner - unfortunately is no longer effective, it is therefore necessary to ensure that the damages are increasingly avoided or limited to the maximum".
The Department of Hunting is also working on the drafting of the new wildlife hunting plan that the commissioner Simeone intends to have it approved soon by the provincial council.
Agenda for Friday 24th February 2012
Press office of the Province of Viterbo