A specific regulatory change
The reduction to one hour, from the request for intervention to the ATC, of the deadline after which owners or handlers with a hunting license and "trained" can intervene directly on their own fund for the emergency containment of wild boars is a good thing. This is what he underlines Coldiretti Umbria in reference to the recent resolution of the Regional Council, requested by the Agricultural Organization, which however must be made "structural" with a specific regulatory change to facilitate long-term containment procedures. Given the gravity of the situation, with wild boars continuing to devastate crops and the environment, also threatening public safety and representing a health danger – explains Albano Agabiti, Coldiretti Regional President – a continuous commitment must be made on multiple fronts to put a stop to uncontrolled proliferation.
Companies and territories at risk
A problem we have been fighting about for some time and which affects the entire region, pushing farms to close and entire territories to be abandoned, with obvious risks also for the hydrogeological structure. A dramatic situation – reiterates Agabiti – such as to require an extraordinary effort, taking into account that the systematic devastation of wild boars in our countryside does not provide respite, but also of the increasingly greater dangers for citizens near the most urban and popular areas. An emergency that has been going on for years - reiterates Mario Rossi Director of Coldiretti Umbria - with crops perpetually damaged, not to mention the risk of "swine fever" with possible implications for the pig sector.
Training to be strengthened
A real change is needed on the containment of the species, also aiming to strengthen training for the personnel in charge, as recently done by Coldiretti Umbria. But also, as has been requested for some time, to develop an organic project for the wild boar supply chain for the marketing and traceability of meat, which is still struggling to take off. As well as the implementation at local level of the extraordinary national plan for catching, killing and disposing of wild boars, and the simplification and digitalisation of administrative procedures for containment interventions. A situation well beyond the guard limits, therefore, which also worries the population, with almost seven out of ten Italians (69%) who believe that wild boars are too numerous while there is even 58% who consider them a real threat for the population, as well as a serious problem for crops and environmental balance as 75% of those interviewed for the Coldiretti/Ixè survey think (source: Coldiretti).