La wild boar population on Italian soil it has doubled from 500 thousand to over 1 million in just ten years. Ispra data on the increase in the wild boar population in Italy are alarming. Concern among farmers, who increasingly see their crops devastated by herds of ungulates. The head of the coordination service Ispra fauna Piero Genovesi analyzes the causes of the phenomenon.
“The growth of the woods, the abandonment of the countryside, the greater regulation of hunting and the creation of protected areas have created more environments suitable for fauna and wild boar particularly. But there are also other factors, such as the introduction of wild boar for hunting purposes, now prohibited, and hybridizations with the domestic pig, which are even more prolific than wild boar ".
Franco Ferrari, agriculture and biodiversity manager WWF, argues that "to reduce the wild boar population the remedy is not hunting: the number of hunting days and the number of animals that can be taken have increased, but the animals continued to increase. The hunters cannot solve the problem, because they are the ones who created it. Instead, farmers must be involved, through the techniques of catching through corral, enclosures that allow you to capture entire herds of wild boars "(The Rope).