Wild boar killing fell by 66% in province of Lucca. In time of Covid, taking advantage of the stop hunting, wildlife has increasingly become the master of woods and countryside. The limitations to travel has drastically reduced the containment activity, making it short of the budget beyond 2100 culls. It is the highest reduction in Tuscany (average -48%). This is what it reveals Coldiretti Lucca on the occasion of the circulation of the Arx della Toscana bulletin with almost 16784 fewer wild boars killed from October to December. “The campaigns - he explains Andrea Elmi, president Coldiretti Lucca - are at the mercy of the wild boars that in the meantime have continued to proliferate and roam causing damage to our crops and to our companies.
A strong and shared commitment of all the parties involved is needed to find a definitive solution to the problem, continuing the effort we are carrying out with the Department, also authorizing the jokes lost in the lockdown next February, with an assumption of responsibility of the whole system without the prevailing interests of partisan ”.
The comparison between 2019 and 2020 relating to the months of October, November and December paints a situation well below the expectations of the ATC 12 abatement plan. "Taking the same period as a reference - concludes Elmi - a given: 2168 fewer wild boars were taken than expected. The containment mechanism has completely failed and only the farms pay the price "(Lucca live).