“Recent sightings of wolves that circulate undisturbed at the gates of medium-hill towns, when not in the plains, urgently bring to everyone's attention the almost uncontrolled proliferation of this animal species on our territory. Not a new problem, but increasingly serious not only for the damage that the attacks cause to the many livestock activities active in our province, but also for the potential risk caused to public safety of citizens". With these words Enrico Allasia, president of Confagriculture Cuneo intends to draw the attention of the institutions to a theme, that of the presence of the wolf and its coexistence with man, always of close relevance, but never faced with the necessary incisiveness in recent years.
The conservation plan e Wolf management in Italy, prepared by the Ministry of the Environment, struggles to advance in its implementation process and, as the months pass, companies have to constantly deal with the presence of the predator that wanders undisturbed without being controlled effectively. “With sightings more and more at low altitudes and even inside the inhabited centers what we still have to wait for why it should be noted that the consistency of the predator is now out of control and consequently urgent measures are adopted for its real management? ”, Allasia asks. But it is the proliferation of all wildlife, wild boars and roe deer in particular, that does not know a stop in the province of Cuneo and that worries farmers, as explained by the director of Confagricoltura Cuneo, Robert Abellonius: "The only system capable of maintaining or adjusting the wildlife population to a level corresponding to ecological and scientific needs is hunting activity.
Due to the pandemic, however, since last November this activity has been partly banned and partly limited, before the Region authorized it as it is considered to be among those of "public interest". Now the Alpine Districts and the Territorial Areas of Hunting can make up for the lost days, but with the snow-covered terrain of these weeks, boar hunting, for example, is prohibited in the plains, where it causes the greatest damage. The result, therefore, is that next spring, with the sowing and the vegetative restart of the plants, we will be faced with a real emergency, with incalculable damage to crops. It is therefore necessary to intervene with urgent measures, motivated by the exceptional moment we are experiencing, simplifying the procedures for controlled felling and preparing from now on to allocate extraordinary funds for the restoration of damage to farms, which will be important ", concludes the director.