The behavior of wild boars is not so different from that of men: when they are many in a concentrated area, they begin to stay close and move elsewhere, extending their presence like a kind of wildfire, in search of new spaces and new resources. A concept that, declined in the Varese latitudes, causes the exponential increase of wild boars within the Regional Park of Field of flowers pushed them more and more towards the cities. For this reason, the fact that the containment plan launched by the body is stopped in Region for over a year it has certainly not helped to improve the situation. Also in recent weeks there have been reports of ungulates sighted in Masnago, Avigno and Sant'Ambrogio, not to mention the Rasa and Velate, where the inhabitants live with these "neighbors" for some time.
The park authority has been dealing with this situation for a long time now, so much so that last January it elaborated, for the first time in its history, a five-year management and withdrawal plan. No willingness to resort to the "wild double", but the need to stem a presence that creates damage to crops and dangers on the roads. Like? With the killing of these animals also in the areas of the natural park, i.e. those reserves that cover a fifth of the entire territory of the Campo dei Fiori and where so far the hunters have never been able to enter. For the first year, the killing - in the natural park area alone - of between 75 and 100 wild boars was planned, out of a total of about 250.
Then the outbreak of the pandemic and the lockdowns froze the project, limiting hunting activity from November to March and only in traditional areas. Too little, perhaps, to stem the invasion. And the five-year plan? «We are still waiting for the authorization from the Lombardy Region - replies laconic Giuseppe Barra, president of the Park -. The last thing we were asked for was a damage impact assessment that this activity could result within the nature reserve».
A sort of paradox, in short: the selection hunt aims to reduce the number of animals to avoid damage, and from Milan they are asked to have an assessment of the damage that hunting could cause. The request came among other things six months after that Ispra, the higher institute for environmental protection and research, had already given the green light to plan launched by the Park. "Now we are waiting for the final ok - concludes Barra - because the situation is out of control" (Prealpina.it).