In recent months also in Abruzzo, as in the rest of Italy, the news reports were full of alarmist announcements of invasions of wild boars, of devastated crops, and of families with children forced to flee because they are chased by angry wild boars. For the LAC (League for the abolition of hunting), however, these are false alarms and would try to influence the politician on duty under the banner of populism. The association wanted to underline how the stories have been amplified or even invented to create alarmism and fear in the population.
Here are the exact words of the League: "When you go back to the source, or at the beginning of this campaign of real media" terrorism ", it turns out that the whole controversy began with the launch of the new Regional Hunting Wildlife Plan of Abruzzo, which, coincidentally, provides for the complete eradication of the wild boar species in a wide strip of the regional territory that includes the whole hilly and coastal area of Abruzzo. It happens, in fact, that this area, which represents beyond one third of the regional territory, both the most suitable, from the point of view of food sources, for wild boar, but also the area where there are no protected areas and therefore the most exploitable for hunting!
It is therefore understandable that hunters, and in particular those who hunt wild boar, feel penalized by this Wildlife Hunting Plan and that for this reason they try to counter it, making the request to open wild boar hunting within the Abruzzo national and regional parks, with the false motivation that the protected areas represent a safe haven for ungulates. However, the data, and it is precisely the Abruzzo PFVR to affirm it, argue that most of the road accidents involving wild boars are concentrated in the South-East Abruzzo area, or in theATC Vastese, where, however, only 1% of the territory is forbidden to hunt! Furthermore, these areas also incorporate anthropogenic, even industrial activities and therefore it is impossible for them to act as a basin for the proliferation of wild boars.
Without considering that in protected areas illicit activities and poaching are very frequent, with home-made cages, laces and crossbows, therefore in fact there are no areas free from hunting pressure, whether it be legal or illegal. To keep under control the number of wild boars will take care of their natural predator, namely the wolf, which coincidentally has increased in recent years hand in hand with the wild boar, benefiting from the increased availability of the latter in the territory ".