The most wrong and also the most dangerous answer that a public administrator can give to
this threat of the African swine fever is that demagogic. This terrible viral disease, which, it must be remembered, is absolutely not transmissible to humans, affects pigs and wild boars and in addition to being highly contagious is very often lethal for animals that are affected. ASF epidemics do not involve mankind from a clinical point of view but have heavy economic repercussions in the countries where they occur. At stake, therefore, mind you, there is neither hunting nor hunters but an entire and vast production sector which is that of Italian pig farming.
Having said that, it only remains to add that such a devastating disease requires a strictly scientific approach that does not leave even a millimeter of space for animal rights ideology that, so to speak, of the poor "bambi" and the poor wild boars. Giving in to the fake complaints of those who, with the excuse of wanting to save the poor wild boars, have the sole purpose of penalizing hunters with absurd prohibitions, would mean not having understood the severity of the problem putting animalism before science. In Italy, with the exclusion of Sardinia, we are quite unprepared to face this scourge but just look around and treasure the measures adopted by other countries that, instead, were forced to face before us the problem was also much larger in scope.
In this regard, it would be enough to analyze the scientific and technical strategies introduced, for example, by the Czech Republic which, not only has not closed the hunt illogically but, on the contrary, used all hunters, together with the police and military forces, to successfully defuse a threat that came from Poland where, on the contrary, different measures had been taken and with disappointing results.
Therefore, instead of banning hunting activities - an unjust provision among other things, because it affects only one category and not, for example, all the other visitors and users of the woods and the natural environment in general - it would be necessary that the administrators of the areas affected they had the determination and courage not to slip on the treacherous terrain of demagogy, instead, adopting a strategy that can only be pursued with the convinced and prepared collaboration of hunters. And well did the MIPAAF to pursue, today, this path along which, everyone must be sure, every hunter will know how to do his part and his duty as a citizen (source: ANLC).