The numbers of the Provincial Police
Since January 28.000st, XNUMX nutrias have been killed in province of Ferrara, 3.100 examples using the 22 caliber rifle, +13% compared to last year. The numbers of what is defined as an "emergency" were provided by the provincial police commander Roberta Artioli during a meeting in the prefecture coordinated by the prefect Massimo Marchesiello.
Regional containment plan
The killing activity, it was explained, is mainly conducted by hunters authorized to assist Provincial Police personnel in implementing the regional containment plan. The meeting follows the protest demonstration on 10 July by Coldiretti, who defined the situation as "out of control" and "with risk profiles also for public safety in cases of failure of the canal embankments due to the excavations carried out by the rodent".
Use of cages
It will be important, says the prefecture, "to refine the collaboration between farmers and assistants in trapping activities, taking care to optimize the use of the cages granted for use by the Province to the owners of agricultural land and unfortunately often vandalized within private areas".