Maffei's words
The National President Arci Caccia intervenes on the issue of the amendments to law 157/92 included in the next financial law Christian Maffei: “Much ado about nothing”, this is the first comment that comes to mind. We inform, something that no one has done, that what is foreseen in the amendment, recently inserted in the Finance Law, follows the modality with which the control plans are carried out even today in many Italian Regions. Already today, with the favorable opinion of ISPRA, control plans, containment and so on and so on are active, throughout the year and almost everywhere, in full compliance with current legislation. A long list could be made of wild boar containment interventions carried out in inhabited areas, which involved the closure of the roads, the information of the residents and all the measures necessary to intervene in safety.
Necessary men and means
Furthermore, regularly reported by the press and challenged by environmentalists, there are countless control plans, on various species, authorized by protected areas of all levels. As for the fact that hunters participate in these operations, it should be noted that only those who have attended a course and passed an exam of absolute difficulty before a public commission participate. And we must also remember that these interventions have nothing to do with hunting, but are examples of voluntary work of public utility in which hunters intervene because no state organ has the necessary men and means. I have also felt that it would be better to include trapping or selective shooting. Here too we inform you that a control plan, precisely because it is a plan, can, indeed must, also provide for capture and selective shooting, but without hypocrisy.
The truth of the facts
It should be clearly stated that both of these practices end up by law with the slaughter of animals, especially wild boars, given that it is impossible to find areas where to release animals that are already abundant and which create enormous damage to agriculture, other species and heritage forestry throughout the country. Having made these dutiful considerations, to bring the debate back to the truth of the facts, all we have to do is ask ourselves: who benefits from raising the tone of confrontation in society on these issues? What are the real lobbies that think they can gain from this climate of tension? Over time we will find out, but we already have some certainties, surely hunters will not benefit, exploited in this way, like the poor wild boars.
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