Hunting every day, but with specialized personnel, to tackle the problem, now out of control, of the wildlife. This is the provocation launched by the national president of Cia Italian Farmers, Dino Scanavino, in response to the proposals issued yesterday for the containment of the presence of wild boars in Italy. The issue of wild animals is very serious, including millionaire damage to agriculture and the environment, the risk of diseases, increasingly frequent road accidents and threats to the safety of citizens. in cities and in the countryside - underlines the president of the CIA -. Only the wild boars, responsible for 80% of the damage to agriculture, have passed from a population of 50 in Italy in 1980 to almost 2 million in 2019.
It is therefore quite evident that we need to return to sustainable loads of animal species, in balance with each other and compatible with the environmental, but also productive and tourist characteristics of the different territories. The wildlife emergency, however, is not resolved expanding the hunting calendars - points out Scanavino -. The selective reduction of wild boars cannot be entrusted to hunters, who have a hobby and sporting purpose.
Rather, for Cia Agricoltori Italiani, the possibility of setting up auxiliary personnel must be foreseen or strengthened, a "special body" profiled, adequately prepared and equipped with a hunting license, to be used by the competent authorities in the convention, also deploying emergency and emergency response tools. These are some of the elements contained in the proposed modification of law 157/92 made by Cia and which is inspired by a model of proper management of wild animals. It would be appropriate - concludes the CIA president - for this proposal to be taken into serious consideration and the parliamentary process to be accelerated. These are concrete answers that Italian farmers await and deserve.