"L 'Umbria promotes the launch of a debate on the issue of extension of wild boar hunting beyond the three months established by national legislation ": the regional group of the Umbria League through a motion, with the first signatory the regional councilor Manuela Puletti, signed by the group leader Stefano Pastorelli and by the regional councilor Valerio Mancini, head of the hunting department of the Umbria League.
“Specifically - explain the Lega councilors - the revision of article 18 paragraph one letter d of the 157 / 92 law, which prescribes the limitation of the hunting period for wild boar to a period of three months. The goal is to guarantee greater autonomy and flexibility to the regions in the definition of the hunting calendar and in the possibility of its extension, in anticipation of extraordinary situations such as proliferate uncontrolled of the species belonging to wild fauna and in consideration of the significant criticalities determined by it.
In the last period, the number of le has increased significantly main huntable species of wildlife such as wild boar, roe deer, fallow deer, also due to the gradual replacement of native species with non-native ones. In particular, the problem of the increase in the number of wild boars in the Umbrian territory has been raised in recent opportunities for discussion within the second Council Commission, as well as by some hunting associations, also by Cia and Coldiretti who have become spokespersons for the demands of the agricultural world, strongly tested by the conspicuous damage to crops.
Added to these are the increasingly frequent road accidents caused by wildlife with consequent dangers for the safety of citizens". "We therefore ask the Umbria Region - conclude the Northern League councilors - to promote a path of revision of the aforementioned standard, which regulates the hunting activity, involving the other regions that have expressed the same need, in order to allow the territories to be able to act in autonomous and flexible way on the definition of the hunting calendar and on the extension of the hunting period ".