The complaint of Coldiretti
“Wild boars out of control, corn crops destroyed, farm income undermined. In the most delicate growth phase of corn, wild boars throw the plant to the ground to reach and then eat the cob and the damage is done”. The complaint is from the provincial president of Coldiretti of Pordenone, Matteo Zolin.
A problem of environmental balance
“The situation is unsustainable – he continues -. In some areas, it is no longer possible to grow corn. The wild boars, grown to excess, are also a danger for the population and for the road accidents they can cause. Out-of-control wildlife is becoming a problem of environmental balance and in this period a danger for the spread of swine fever which for our region would mean incalculable damage to the entire supply chain with considerable economic losses".
Risk of abandonment
For Zolin, “urgent and vigorous measures are needed to stem what is now an invasion that the agricultural world can no longer sustain. Or that farmers abandon mountainous and hilly territories with the costs to pay for the damages due to the lack of environmental and territorial protection, we wait for the accidents to multiply on the roads with the costs to pay for the accidents and perhaps some victims, we wait for the wild boars bring swine fever with the costs to pay for the important meat and ham sector which will have to leave thousands of workers at home. "Unfortunately -concludes Zolin- in many cases the hunting reserves do not solve the problem and the wildlife is clearly out of control" (source: Coldiretti).