La wild boar hunting at night with lights and night vision goggles and high visibility garments for volunteer guards - two proposals that will be discussed in Regional Council in Lombardy - have caused controversy against the hunting world. The president of Federcaccia Lombardia, Lorenzo Bertacchi, underlines that "the use of headlights and viewers for hunting wild boar at night is a proposal that does not come from hunting associations, but is a response from the Region to the requests of the agricultural world to contain the species and the damage, since to date the Government opposes the use by the Provincial Police of operators specially trained for containment operations provided for by art. 19 of the National Law ".
“As for wearing highly visible garments, for us today it would be essential that it be imposed on everyone wandering hunters for safety reasons, and not just to some, and therefore excluding only those who hunt from stalking ”, concludes Bertacchi.
Dear President Bertacchi, the numbers speak for themselves: in Lombardy, the 2019 hunting season, 9200 wild boars were killed !!! Strange, however, that of the 9200 head, 6063 head of wild boar were killed in only 3 provinces Pavia, Como, Varese, that all three provinces together have about 13 thousand hunters; while provinces such as Brescia and Bergamo together will visualize approximately 45 hunters; they killed “ONLY 2422 heads”.
Is there anything I am not happy with in the participation of these two provinces in the containment of the wild boar species? and yes that you have also asked or obtained from the Lombardy Region that the hunted use 15 dogs with only 10 hunters; I really want to see how you are going to keep them all under control; moreover that these then you are really sure, sure that they do not pursue other species of hoofed animals? In the Brescia CACs that I know very well the territory and the area; if you free a pack in Iseo, the dogs will go and get them back, if that's okay with you, but luxury in Ponte di Legno after 7 days; now you have requested the use of headlights and night vision goggles, I hope that in the region, they will repent and DO NOT allow night optics; because you see dear president as well as being prohibited by law night hunting, I would not want that with the excuse of its use in wild boar hunting, these optics are used by the usual crafty of the neighborhood, to do, Roe deer, Deer, Chamois, Ibex, Mouflon (DE SFROSS) because an old proverb says that the opportunity makes the thief !!!!!!
cordiality