Wild boar slaughter fell by 30% in Lunigiana. In time of Covid, taking advantage of the stop to hunting, wildlife has increasingly become the master of woods and countryside. Movement restrictions have drastically reduced containment activities, leaving over 800 culls in the budget. This is what it reveals Coldiretti Massa Carrara on the occasion of the circulation of the bulletin of the ATC of Tuscany with almost 16.784 fewer wild boars killed from October to December 2020.
“The campaigns - he explains Frances Ferrari, president Coldiretti Massa Carrara - are at the mercy of wild boars which in the meantime have continued to proliferate and run around causing damage to our crops and our companies. A strong and shared commitment of all parties involved is needed to find a definitive solution to the problem, continuing the effort we are carrying out with the councilorship, also authorizing the jokes lost in the lockdown next February, with an assumption of responsibility for the whole system without any vested interests prevailing ”.
The comparison between 2019 and 2020 relative to the months of October, November and December, it paints a situation well below the expectations of the abatement plan of theAtc 13. “Taking the same period as a reference - concludes Ferrari - a fact leaps to our eyes: they have been taken 843 fewer wild boars than expected. The containment mechanism has completely failed and only the farms are paying for it ”.