Selection regulations, the Regional coordination of Umbria wild boar teams it doesn't fit: “Without any comparison with the hunting associations, the regional regulation is invented for the wild boar selection hunting, effectively introducing a new form of hunting for this species “. For the boar teams this is yet another attack from politics: "We invent a new form of hunting without first having regularized the one in single form, for which we have been asking for certainties for four years now". Speaking of "individuals", it should be remembered that in reality they are in fact, in effect, small teams, which also count over 10 hunters enabled for boar hunting in single form.
Who carry out the hunting activity within the sectors assigned to the authorized teams “creating disturbance, dangerous actions and damage for the achievement of abatement targets established by the Atc". Without having found adequate solutions to peaceful coexistence - the wild boar squads complain - now the Region is inventing a new form of hunting. "We continue to tackle the wild boar problem only by increasing the forms of collection". Yet the leaders present in Umbria continue to increase. And the wild boar squads report the figures. The share of wild boars killed by "exterminator" agricultural owners, authorized to shoot at any time and without controls in defense of their activity, is equal to 0,15% of the total slaughter, while the contribution from "the phantom single" , in the four-year period, corresponds to 1,5% of approximately 70 thousand heads altogether culled.
And faced with these numbers, they ask themselves: "Are other forms of hunting really useful in reducing the number of wild boars?". And they recall the free social function of the teams, offered throughout the year even outside the hunting season: installation of electrified fences (often owned by teams) in defense of agricultural production, containment abatements for the protection of crops and public safety, within parks, green areas, the airport area, near towns and streets. Despite all the efforts, the seriousness and the sustained economic efforts, we regularly find ourselves undergoing attacks from the institutions, the usual animal rights activists and farmers.
The hostility of this category is even more serious considering that the damages come from the pockets of the huntersi, in addition to the quotas allocated by the ATC for disposable crops and environmental improvements, funds always fed with the money of the hunters through the regional concession fees and the enrollments in the territorial hunting area, up to reaching the maximum of harassment in the case in which the allocated financial coverage proves insufficient to pay all the damages: in that case the ATCs are authorized to ask for money only boar hunting teams.
The coordination of wild boar teams complains to politics and agricultural associations the lack of confrontation over the years: "Consultation tables, in the presence of all the interested parties, would have made it possible to rewrite more sober and useful laws and regulations for everyone, instead of producing cunning acts that have only contributed to aggravate the situation “. Hence the hope that soon a table will be activated where all the parties are involved, in order to draw up a real management plan. "Until that moment, and while waiting for the situation regarding the problems exposed to become clearer, the wild boar hunting teams suspend all forms of collaboration, reserving further initiatives in the vicinity of registration for the 2021-22 hunting season (Even today).