Not just bears and wolves: especially wild boars, in Trentino, they are "a problematic species" and must be contained. The provincial council says this, with a provision proposed by the councilor Julia Zanotellirecently approved the new discipline that regulates the control of wild boar in the province of Trento. «The goal - explains a press release - is rearrange matter to make it clearer and more accessible, leaving its substance intact, the result of the experience acquired and the comparison with the interested parties. From the application of the regulations in force, updated in 2019 with the aim of simplifying and make the control of the species more effective, the need to reorganize the matter again emerged.
Since this discipline attributes a fundamental role to the hunting organization, especially as regards the activities implemented in area A, renamed the containment area, in which he is the first person in charge of the control activity, the changes are the result of a comparison with the same. First of all, the definition of the zoning of the provincial territory has been revised, which differentiates it according to the stable presence or not of the suide and which has a direct impact on the application of the discipline. monitoring interventions at the head of the managing body, some articles have been rewritten, simplifying them further, and the baiting activity has been regulated in detail, aimed at attracting wild boars to capture them, underlining the difference with foraging, whose prohibition is clearly stated". In addition to these "other changes have been made, more in form than in substance, always with the aim of simplifying and clarifying the objectives and operations of the discipline, and the order of titles, items and articles has been partially revised ".
The Province and the hunting organization - the press release informs us - "continue to cooperate in the pursuit of control purposes through the staff of the Forestry Corps and the controllers, subjects with specific qualifications obtained by participating in a specific training course. The organization of the courses remains entrusted to the Trentino Forest and Fauna Environment Academy, established at the Edmund Mach Foundation ». The new discipline was submitted to Ispra and to the Wildlife Observatory. There Autonomous Province of Trento - reads the provision - "considers the wild boar a problematic species in consideration of its impact on agricultural crops, ecological balance and wildlife: therefore illegal immigrants should be discouraged and both expansion and spontaneous immigration should be avoided from neighboring territories.
It is in effect since 2011 the current regulation of the control of wild boar and its hybrids throughout the provincial territory. The control activity consists in the killing or capture of non-huntable species or for which hunting is suspended, as is the case of wild boar and its hybrids in our province, even outside hunting periods and in areas where hunting is prohibited, for health reasons, for the protection of the soil , for the organic selection, for the protection of the historical-artistic heritage, for the protection of zoo-agro-forestry and fish productions. The purpose of controlling wild boar and hybrids is to contain the species where its presence is consolidated, so that its impact is not detrimental to agricultural activities and other components of the ecosystem; avoiding their settlement in the remaining provincial territory; pursue the eradication of hybrid forms throughout the provincial territory "(The Adige).