Longer hunting period
The fight to contain the number of wild boars in Molise continues with new interventions. At the express request of Coldiretti Molise, the regional council has in fact extended the hunting period for this species until 29 January cm. A decision that the Regional Executive adopted following an official note sent by the Organization to the Region in which the writer highlighted how "the excessive presence of wild boars determines a highly negative picture both for the economic activities linked to the agricultural and livestock world and for public safety, with an exponential increase in road accidents".
Number containment
In addition to this, a course will soon be activated for aspiring track dog handlers, a breed capable of managing all phases of wild boar hunting, from hunting to following. "This further measure for the containment of the wild boar species, activated thanks to a shared path between the Regional Councilor for Agriculture, Nicola Cavaliere, the national president of Enci, Dino Muto, and the support of the Molise Dog Group - said the Regional Director by Coldiretti, Aniello Ascolese - will certainly not solve the problem but it represents an additional tool that will contribute to the containment of the number, now out of control, of wild boars in the area. Furthermore, thanks to this course – added Ascolese – it will now be possible to carry out, as requested by us, even hunting trips 'in hunted' and 'in turn', foreseen by regional legislation but not yet used”.
The presence on the territory
As repeatedly denounced by Coldiretti Molise, the number of wild boars in the region is around 40 thousand units (in Italy there are over 2,3 million). It is estimated that there are 9 wild boars per square kilometer in our region. For the sustainable maintenance of the ecosystem their number should be 2 per square kilometre. This means that to rebalance the ecosystem their number should be reduced by 80%.
Massive damage
Wild boars cause incalculable damage to farms and livestock farms which are increasingly forced to close due to the emergency they cause. By destroying entire crops, these wild animals attack farmers working in the fields and prevent breeders from using farm-produced forage to feed the animals. As if this were not enough, then, wild boars also pose a serious threat to public safety, now roaming undisturbed in inhabited centers and moving freely on the roads so much as to cause even fatal accidents (source: Coldiretti).