During the lockdown last year the walks of the wild boar families in a deserted and ghostly piazza in Italy filled the Facebook message boards and the Whatsapp chats of all Sassari. Surreal images that no one would have thought they would ever see. The problem is that that little family has made converts and, after a year, the walks in the city have become a habit for many other groups even now that the streets are populated and busy.
A few days ago some wild boars were spotted and photographed in Luna e Sole in the park in via Zanetti, and others even in the opposite part of the city in the roundabout of the civic market immortalized by a video shot at night a few meters away and with cars passing around. A situation that this time has nothing picturesque and has already made the competent bodies raise their antennas, worried that the trafficking of wild boars may increase and also create dangerous situations: "It is a situation that we must monitor and manage with a institutional coordination and related control room - explains engineer Antonio Zara, manager of the Environment and Fauna Planning and Programming sector of the Province -.
We will ask for a meeting with the representatives of the Municipality and the commander of the Forestry Supervisory Corps Muntoni, possibly coordinated by the prefect Maria Luisa D'Alessandro. This is a problem that must be addressed immediately, because the reports we have received in recent days show how these animals are not afraid to venture into the inhabited center. And if we don't stop them right away, they will become more and more numerous". On the reasons that led to this situation, the manager of the Province has clear ideas: «The pandemic of last year reduced the hunting days - he explains - and the population has increased considerably. In addition, the "walks" of last year they got familiar with the city and now these animals are less and less afraid to venture into the inhabited center.
And unfortunately I must also say that there are people who feed them on the outskirts of Sassari and this is not good ». "The best solution in these cases is to prevent them from entering - says Antonio Zara - and to do this we need to understand where they come from, we too are starting to get an idea. There are many and we must act immediately otherwise situations of great danger could arise for the population. The ministry guidelines provide for culling only as a last resort and also i am of the opinion to use bloodless solutions. With camera traps we can already understand where they come from, then we can think, for example, of arranging electrical barriers that do not cause damage to animals but serve as bollards. Or you can even get to do selective catches. The important thing is to coordinate all together and do it as soon as possible, because these are animals that if they enter a territory become very difficult to send "(La nuova sardegna).