The controversy over the containment of wild boars in Tuscany, and in particular in the province of Grosseto, began even before the opening of the hirsute hunt.
The center of the diatribe is the ever-increasing damage that ungulates cause to crops and to things or people in an accidental manner, often due to the fact that animals go as far as the outskirts of inhabited centers; the controversy is even more accentuated when it comes to compensation for damages as if it were a hot potato passed as in a vicious circle between the Province and the Region.
The various ideas on how to contain the species, including hunting killing which however seems to always want to be placed as the last solution, in the absence of anything better, taking into account the apparent negative opinions of the Higher Institute for Environmental Protection and Research.
In the already difficult question he takes over the Caccia Pesca Natura movement which criticizes the ineffectiveness of the ISPRA protocol and which had already made itself known by the Grosseto provincial administration in the last month of April.
According to CPN, “The President of the Province is wrong. In fact, if he had read more carefully Article 19, paragraph 2, of the National Hunting Law no.157 / 92, he would surely have seen that ISPRA's opinion is required on the use of ecological methods but "... if the Institute verifies the ineffectiveness of the aforementioned methods, the regions can authorize abatement plans ...".
Continuing on the question, he affirms, Caccia Pesca Natura, "there is no need to seek the opinion of ISPRA on the methods of carrying out the killing, because it is enough to apply the existing Regional Law, thus being able to have a more streamlined and faster process, especially for the benefit of farmers ”.
The association still specifies, “Furthermore that the opinion of ISPRA is neither binding nor necessary was confirmed by the Order of the Lazio Regional Administrative Court - Section Prima Ter, 12.11.2010, n ° 04908, in which it is specified that “art. 7, paragraph 1, Law 157/92 qualifies ISPRA as a scientific and technical advisory body for the State, the Regions and the Provinces, whose institutional function cannot, therefore, be that of replacing the Administrations in the fulfillment of their choices. in the field of hunting, but to support it from a purely technical point of view ".
Caccia Pesca Natura then wants to remind the President of the Province, Leonardo Marras, that "if currently all the hunters enrolled in the teams of the boar it is due exclusively to the new Regional Law and certainly not to a Provincial resolution, this is to reiterate that there is no need for new rules in a field, such as hunting, which is already more than regulated at national and regional level".
Finally, the association concludes its invective inviting Marras “to carefully read the protocol he has stipulated with ISPRA regarding the killing of pigeons: it is completely useless to make proclamations on how the Province intends to intervene to control the population of pigeons and to limit the damage caused by these to agricultural crops in the territory of the capital, when, in this unfortunate protocol, it has sanctioned that from XNUMX November to first of April these killing will have to be suspended! Then explain to the farmers, who have just sown, and to the breeders, who have their farms invaded by pigeons what they can do besides shouting 'shoo'… ”.