The containment of ungulates, in particular of boars which are causing various problems throughout the region, also putting public safety at risk, was on the agenda of the meeting held in recent days at the headquarters of thePiedmont regional councilor for agriculture, food, hunting and fishing, in the presence of the representatives and technicians of all provinces. "In addition to the meetings that are taking place with the Committees for safety and public order of the various Piedmontese prefectures, we have decided to convene a meeting with representatives and wildlife technicians of the Provinces of Piedmont, to take stock of the situation regarding the uncontrolled proliferation in all the Provinces of ungulates and in particular of wild boars "explains the regional councilor for agriculture, food, hunting and fishing Marcus Protopapa.
From the meeting, which was also attended by the vice president of the Region and councilor for the mountain Fabio Carosso, it emerged the will on the part of all to implement all possible measures for the numerical containment of wild boars, to safeguard the cultures but above all public safety also in the light of a series of serious road accidents ". From the overview it was clear the presence of a high number of wild boars in all the Provinces of the Region and at the same time a series of critical issues in the implementation of containment plans of the same, as the shortage of staff as regards the hunting guards.
There is also a need for greater coordination between the actions carried out by the Provinces, Territorial Hunting Areas and Alpine Districts. examined by the competent regional offices. Among these, the strengthening of the so-called long and medium-term selection hunt.Also with regard to operations, we want to create a working group with the technicians of the Region, Provinces, Atc and Ca, to formulate proposals for the revision of the current regional guidelines, and the proposal to enhance the damage management information system in agriculture was also positively evaluated. Finally it was decided to start a comparison with theHigher Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (Ispra), as regards the verification of the feasibility of extending the use of the so-called "hunted" in the selection hunt for wild boar (Ilpiccolo.net).