While there are those who appeal to the Region to postpone the start of the hunting season following the drought and fires that are hitting theUmbria in this hot summer, the Regional Council approves by majority the resolution, presented by the League, with which the council is asked to lengthen the hunting period to cope with "the uncontrolled proliferation of wildlife", in particular gods boars. The address specifically proposes an extension of the boar hunting period.
And this on the basis of the reduction of hunters who practice this hunt - now down to about 10 thousand in the region - against a substantial increase in some species of wildlife. “Wild boars, roe deer, fallow deer - reads the document - have seen their numerical presence grow also due to the progressive replacement of native species with non-native ones”. Numbers that highlight the impossibility of Umbrian hunters, given the now small number, to be able to deal with such a large number of animals to be killed, "given their progressive decrease in numbers, the hunting days available and the vastness of the territory where to practice the hunting activity, according to the procedures provided for by the current legislation on the subject ".
Before the vote, the regional councilor Morroni he recalled that in recent months a discussion between the Regions and the Government has been activated to achieve these objectives. It seemed imminent the presentation of a draft decree law that would implement the proposal of the Regions for a two-month extension of wild boar hunting. But the legislative process then ran aground, despite the urgency of an intervention on the problem, due to divergent positions between the various ministries involved.
Now the Regional Council asks the Umbrian Council to act as spokesperson in the State-Regions confrontation of the need to review theart. 18 of law 157/92, being able to extend the hunting period for wild boars and other supernumerary species in many territories. Meanwhile, the Regional Council, acknowledging one of the requests of the hunting associations, approved a derogation from the Dgr 95 on the use of game meat, eliminating the limit for self-consumption wild boar until 31 December 2022. The delays on the digital badges and the difficulties on the timely reporting of the culled animals have instead made the Umbria Region opt not to insert the pre-opening of the turtledove (Still today).