While throughout the province farmers continue to report damage and inconvenience because of the ungulates, from Lazio region the go-ahead for the "Sampling plan for the selection of wild boar" for 17 faunistic-hunting companies of the Tuscia. In total, the culling of 876 animals was authorized. This is what is foreseen by a resolution of 26 August issued by the competent regional management on agriculture and hunting. The plan is valid for one year. These below are the companies concerned e the subdivision of the heads: Barbarano Romano 48 heads; Bucone (municipalities of Canino, Cellere and Tessennano) 26; Canine 20; Carbonara (Bagnoregio, Viterbo and Celleno) 16; Casalone (Viterbo) 24; Castel Bagnolo (Orte) 68; Fondaccio (Monefiascone) 20; Filissano (Nepi and Catel Sant'Elia) 56; La Gallicella (Acquapendente) 78; Mezzano (Valentano) 48; Monti di Castro (Ischia di Castro) 100; Pantalla (Tuscania) 140; San Martino (Sutri and Nepi) 40; San Salvatore (Vetralla) 48; Sugarella (Canino and Tuscania) 48; Vejano 80; The Voltone (Farnese) 16.
The decision of the Region takes note of the note of the Viterbo Game Producers Authority "with which, on behalf of the requesting concessionaires, it is requested to be able to continue the selection hunt as foreseen by the proposed sampling plans, given the persistence of serious damage to the crops and agricultural infrastructures inside the wildlife hunting companies caused by wild boars". In this regard, the Region explains that "the sampling in selection is an effective tool for reducing the number of wild boars and damage to agricultural crops and agricultural infrastructures if implemented in synergy between the various wildlife institutes present in the provincial territory, and that the failure implementation within the hunting faunal companies, could generate an increase in presences within them, with a consequent increase in damage, as well as reduce the effectiveness of the management plans of the territorial hunting areas ".
Il pick selection it is allowed only to hunters in possession of a selection hunting qualification even if not registered in the regional register. Finally, the Region, ”given the increasingly high risk of introducing the African swine fever virus in our country, advises to maintain the attention shown in relation to the possibility of finding dead wild boars (also following a road accident) or killed but showing anomalous behavior of any kind ante mortem, so as to report them to the competent authorities ", and recommends "Also of report the discovery of partially predated carcasses (the state of infection increases the probability of predation) or putrefied, as the virus survives the complete decomposition of the host thus making a laboratory diagnosis always possible "(Viterbonews24).