THENational Animal Protection Agency (ENPA) commented the scheduled start-up for tomorrow, Thursday 3 January 2019, of the selection hunting for roe and fallow deer in the province of Savona. The note from the animal rights association is controversial as always. Here is what you can read in this press release: "The wild boar hunt will continue throughout the month of January, after the accounts of the culls carried out so far they have given the same result as all previous years: in the previous months the "sportsmen" have not managed to break down the quota assigned to them, 3376 against 9350, one in three; this has always been the case.
The hunters are made to do the censuses on limited portions of the territory and the presumed, but very presumed, numbers of the total on the whole territory are extracted; a percentage is established to be cut down and the number of annual "deaths" is obtained; this number is never reached even in the first part of the hunting season and therefore every year, really all, the hunt is extended to the month of January thanks to the sieve law; everyone happy, politicians, administrators, hunters and farmers; and the system is more or less valid also for fallow deer and roe deer.
But how many are there really wild boars, fallow deer and roe deer? We will never know until we start taking censuses using reliable methods offered by the modern technology (drones, infrared systems, etc.); the advice of the Savona Animal Protection is that there are far fewer ungulates, however present in the province in large numbers, than they want to believe; the progressive proof is proof of this reduction of damage to agriculture, even if the peasant organizations explain - but do not convince - that their associates, disheartened by the bureaucracy and the delays in repayments, no longer report them ”.