A continuous and incessant struggle that, after months, begins to bear fruit. From a statistic elaborated on a provincial basis it emerges that it is the Municipality of Bagnolo San Vito (Mantua) to have held, in the calendar year 2020, the record of catching specimens of nutria; given to the hand would be about 3600 the animals grabbed. These are impressive numbers especially when compared to those of the previous year, when in 2019 the captured rodents were just over a thousand, or about one third.
«The data prove us right but there is still a lot of work to be done - the comment of the deputy mayor and councilor with responsibility for production, environment and ecology Irene Bocchi -. As a junta we have made available 14mila euros (of these 3500 euros came from the Province while 1800 were allocated by the Consorzio di Bonifica Territori del Mincio, ed) to try to stem one of the most serious problems that afflict our territory. The goal is to safeguard the countryside and the work of our farmers and to center the focus we need everyone's help. This is why the administration intends, in the short term, to set up a voluntary fund within which each individual citizen can pay a contribution, also symbolic.
The entire sum raised will be destined to the enhancement of resources aimed at containing the spread of both otters and pigeons, another area on which we are monitoring. On our work - closes the deputy mayor - the president of Hunting Federation Massimo Riccò, calling it "unprecedented". For this I would like to thank all those who have spent themselves in the first person, from the mayor to individual farmers to the managing director for agriculture Venanzio Pecchini ». This is a particularly interesting initiative adopted for the containment of otters, a problem that haunts the whole Virgilian territory (The Voice of Mantua).