A task force to counter the invasion of wild boars. Palazzo Piloni has put it into action, which in this way intends to make its contribution to fight of farmers against wildlife, which every year creates more and more damage and problems in the province. . "It is impossible to estimate the wild boar population present in the Belluno area", specifies the provincial councilor with responsibility for hunting and fishing Franco De Bon, mayor of San Vito. "In addition to proceeding with controlled killing 365 days a year and 24 hours a day, in recent years we have enabled 24 controllers (hunters or landowners) to help us eliminate the wild boar, an operation that has become necessary in our territory. ".
Thanks to this host of 1405 controllers-blast chillers, the Province of Belluno meets the demands of farmers, who are increasingly exasperated to see crops destroyed by these animals. «With the establishment of the Green table we have begun a close collaboration relationship with farmers », continues De Bon. “In other areas of Italy, tools are being sought to counteract the damage caused by wildlife. In Belluno we are one step ahead. And we could spend our reality like example of good practices that can also be exported elsewhere».
Every year in the Belluno area there are various damages caused to crops and mountain pastures by wild fauna, in particular by wild boars. In 2018, for example, there were over 164 thousand euros of estimated damages and almost 80 thousand euros of liquidated damages, for 53 claims for compensation. Numbers that testify the impact of this animal on Belluno agriculture. «We have a duty to protect local productions. The breeders and the farmers constitute a garrison of the mountain territories ». Meanwhile, wildlife is still in action despite the bad weather. "On the fields there are still corn and soy crops which will probably be impossible to harvest and which will become an easy meal for wild boar and deer", say from Coldiretti (Courier of the Alps).