It is sad to have to respond to what was communicated by the Metropolitan City of Bologna, which in order not to assume obvious responsibilities, tries to download them on the ATC managers of the planned hunt, which have always been actively involved in numerical containment of the wild boar species, but in fact unable to do so since the beginning of March, following the DPCM of the Government and the ordinances of the ER region, for the measures to contain contagion from COVID 19. Atc therefore, blocked in carrying out multiple activities within their competence, except for the management of the Control which has instead remained active and in the hands of the Metropolitan City.
The numerical containment of wild boar has been a complex problem for years: the lack of solution is always erroneously attributed to the hunters. The clarification to be made, to the Metropolitan Councilor with Delegation to the Local Police of the Metropolitan City, is that the hunters operate in the control plans voluntarily and at their own expense, in compliance with the rules established by the authorities, often cumbersome and limiting the effectiveness of the interventions themselves. The lack of coordination between the interventions, in the park areas, of oasis or otherwise protected, not due to the hunting world and the Atc, leads to the typical situation of some areas of the Bolognese area, rich in inviolable reservoirs from which the animals come out to feed themselves causing damage and road accidents, and then return undisturbed.
Several times the hunting world and the ATCs have re-proposed agreements that provide for operational synergies in the management and control of wild boar, throughout the territory, huntable areas and protected areas, but these conventions have never been ratified and therefore applied. And on this we invite the Metropolitan City to take action, as, as required by Law 157/92, it appears to be the first responsible for the management of the wildlife control plans. It would be correct, when throwing the stone, not to withdraw your hand. If you come to mention the lack of transparency, the individual episodes should be mentioned; if they fear wrongdoing, they should be prosecuted.
One cannot demonize a category on hearsay or suspicion. It should also be remembered that it is the Region, a body responsible for controlling the work of the Atc, through the STACP, the Hunting Office and the Department of Agriculture: the Metropolitan City is not involved in this, except for police checks. on individual hunters. In this moment of strong economic and social crisis, it would be advisable for the Representatives of the Public Bodies to keep tones more responsive to the objectives to be achieved, seeking maximum operational collaboration, with the hunting world and with the Atc of this province.
All interested parties must assume their responsibilities, not feeding sterile contrasts, but remaining focused on the objective of numerical reduction of the wild boar species, to make it sustainable from an environmental and social point of view. The Hunters are absolutely aware of the need to seek environmental and social sustainability of the wild boar species, through a targeted and finalized hunting and control sampling, will give maximum availability to the necessary interventions, which must be coordinated and carried out in an adequate and synergistic way. (The President of the Provincial Section Federcaccia of Bologna, Daniele Colli)