The hunters who protested in front of Palazzo Cesaroni on Tuesday while the session of the Regional Council of Umbria. Leading the protest of the wild boar group - which does not have the "flags" of the hunting associations, but which finds support above all within the Federcaccia - is Fabio Faina. "The available data confirm, in an irrefutable way - says Faina on behalf of the wild boar hunters protesting - that the wild boar hunting teams carry out a control action that is quantitatively much greater than any other form of control and containment implemented in comparisons of the wild boar species ".
A clear message to the councilor Roberto Morroni, who announced a series of measures to modify the selection activity carried out so far. Among these, the greatest opportunity to shoot given to farmers in possession of a hunting license. The words used by Councilor Morroni, for whom the "problem" of wild boars in Umbria has been "left out of control with a situation of inertia", are "unacceptable" statements to wild boar hunters, which wild boar hunters reject, considering them "vulgar and offensive ".
“These accusations - Faina replies - were aimed at the thousands of hunters who spent their money, their time, made available their means and their faithful dogs at no cost to the community. In 2019 alone, hundreds of interventions were carried out in the regional territory to meet farm friends, in full respect of their work and to guarantee their income as much as possible. hundreds of interventions to ensure road safety in order to avoid the risk of accidents as much as possible “. “Thousands of hunters in Umbria - continues Faina - have been called to carry out a voluntary action that has called them and calls them, within a few hours, to be available and available to intervene at any day and at any time.
Volunteering that we have done, without any reimbursement, totally free, and which has always seen us fully collaborative ". Faina announces that the wild boar hunters will make further proposals. “Because we are convinced - he explains - that the contribution of ideas and actions can only come primarily from those who live in the woods and their fauna all year round. the hunter, especially in these times of climate change, must become one of the main subjects of the management of agro-forestry-pastoral territories “. The wild boarists are available to carry out census plans, in order to "finally have serious and reliable data that can be used to identify new and better actions that allow for more effective management". The wild boarists then pose the problem "of the constant increase in the presence of the wolf species".
A phenomenon that "tends to move the wild boar species from its natural habitats towards urban areas, causing an increase in problems in terms of road safety in the first place and also with regard to damage to crops". But before these proposals for hunters there is an essential priority: safety. “All the interventions that we have been called to do - recalls Faina - have been carried out guaranteeing actions in full safety under all aspects. preventive inspections of the areas, reporting and control of the areas subject to intervention, also making use of the collaboration of the voluntary security guards and the police, promptly communicating the places and times of the start and end of the intervention to the competent authorities for the area "(Tuttoggi) .