The Coordination of Wild boar teams of Umbria Region, in order to give a serious response to the containment of wild boar populations, reiterating the maximum availability to discuss and elaborate a Management plan of the species, advances the requests to be proposed to the Hunting Associations, the only ones entitled to represent our interests at the permanent Technical Table, convened by the Umbria Region for next April 15 with the three Umbrian ATCs, the Agricultural Associations and the Environmental Associations.
For a sustainable and resolutive wild boar hunt for problems related to damage to crops, a Management Plan is needed which aims to not overlap the different forms of wild boar hunting, both in terms of time and by area, in order to make them useful. to bring the species back into balance with the consequent reduction of damage. The management plan must be divided into four phases and must have a duration of five years. Phase A concerns prevention, because it is impossible to continue to conceive wildlife damage management only through the payment of the compensable; this technique is unsuccessful and vexatious towards serious and honest farmers, who derive a living from their activities. It would be useful to monitor and immediately keep the wolf species in balance, which will soon be the new problem of farms that deal with animal husbandry.
Phase B concerns the modification of RR 34/99, mandatory to insert the new form of wild boar hunting (the selection one) and to regulate those already existing, such as hunted and no longer single-handed but in turn, given the poor results reported over the years, in addition to the damage caused to the hunt. By “turn” we mean mini teams - from 3 to 6 hunters - in well-defined areas, which must hunt with the same rules as the hunt. Another decisive aspect will be the subdivision of the territory into four macro-areas, in each of which a particular form of wild boar hunting will be destined according to the characteristics of the territory. Each of the forms of hunting will not be superimposed on the others, except for management reasons authorized by the ATCs: each person can be enrolled, at his choice, to one and only one type.
The four macro areas will be those suitable, intended exclusively for hunted hunting; those sub-vocated, intended for all three types of hunting; the critical areas, in which only the hunting in turn can take place; non-suitable areas, to be used exclusively for selection hunting. Wild boar drivers are also asking for clear and unique rules from a health point of view, as well as for the registration fees for each of the three regional ATCs. They also consider it desirable a single implementing regulation for all ATCs also for the management of hunted wild boar hunting, taking as a reference the internal regulation of ATC PG2, as well as for the selection, which needs (phase C) a single implementing regulation with respect to the regional regulation which it broadly rules its development.
Above all, it is important that this type of hunting is distributed, through the hunting calendar, in the time frame during which no other forms of hunting take place.The last phase D concerns the creation of a public chain that transform ungulates from problem to resource. The birth of a supply chain must be an economic opportunity for already existing agricultural enterprises and a new possibility for young people looking for new experiences in the agricultural world. Animals to be allocated to spinneret will be all those shot down in containment throughout the region. The revenues will be divided between the operators and the Public Body.