In five years shot down over 200 wild boars within the Capanne di Marcarolo Park. The precise figure, far from high, 228, emerges from the control plan of the species referred to the period 2015-2020, which envisaged the demolition, with the techniques of the posting and the use of cages, a maximum of 500 items in total, that is 100 per year. Only in 2017, with 86 animals, this figure was approached but it was not a gap in the application of the plan: the quota indicated was not in fact to be respected to the letter and the culls were carried out based on the damage recorded and the concentrations of animals.
In fact, in the territory of the Park there was a “constant decrease in the presence of wild boar in the intervention areas” alongside "A drastic decrease in damage to crops". However, there were increases in the number of animals in correspondence with the opening of the hunt in the free areas, that is, in autumn. In recent weeks, the Council of Protected Areas of the Piedmontese Apennines has adopted the new version valid for the five-year period 2020-2025, which awaits the opinion of Ispra (Higher Institute for Environmental Protection) before being finally approved. The new plan indicates a series of localities and farmhouses around Capanne di Marcarolo and beyond, including Cascina Moglioni, Cascina Merigo, Cascina Crovi, Upper huts and the monumental complex of the Benedicta, where it is necessary to intervene.
However, it also takes into account the presence of the wolf, predator of the excellence of the wild boar. The entire protected area has been divided into intervention areas of a maximum of 750 hectares each. The 2020-2025 plan, unlike the previous ones, does not indicate any abatement quota since, as the Ispra established for the containment plans of other protected areas, the objective is the containment of damages, which is not necessarily achieved with the abatements. In the areas outside the Park, the number of wild boars killed is much higher but the problem of damage to crops is never solved. L'Piedmontese Apennines, in drawing up the plan, refers to the age of the ungulates and also takes into account the reproductive period of the females, as opposed to what happens elsewhere (Newspaper 7).