One wild boar for every five inhabitants. It would be over 120 thousand i wild boars in Basilicata. At least according to the forecasts of the Regional Observatory of Natural Habitats, Faunal Populations and Biodiversity of the regional department for the environment. By now the cases of wild boars that have reached Metapontino beaches and inhabited centers are more and more numerous. Up to the gathering in herds of thousands of wild boar heads in the empty Rendina dam we are at "invasion and the worst danger because beyond the public safety there are sanitation problems with diffusion phenomena of infectious diseases.
The first to be alarmed as they suffer the greatest damage are the farmers. For this reason today the CIA-Agricoltori Basilicata first met the president of Anci Salvatore Adduce and then the Prefect of Potenza. Vardè announced. The alarm does not only concern damage to farms but also the safety of citizens as evidenced by the numerous accidents caused by wild boars against cars in circulation, especially along the roads of the innermost areas. Among the proposals presented, the Possibility on the part of the farmers possessing a regular port to give me the opportunity to carry out self-protection actions and to safeguard crops and land and livestock; pending the amendments to law 157/92 which regulates the matter, the central government will issue an authorization device in favor of the Regions that gives them the possibility of giving life, in concert with the health and environmental authorities, to extraordinary plans for the management of abatements defining checks, use and disposal of slaughtered items.
The CIA-Agricoltori presented to Anci and Prefetto its radical reform proposal for a problem now out of control, including millionaire damage to agriculture and the environment, disease risk, increasingly frequent road accidents and threats to the safety of citizens even in urban areas. There are 7 key points to reverse the wild animal issue: replace the concept of protection with that of management; to reconstitute the Technical Hunting Wildlife Committee at the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, to which to give the competences today divided into different ministries; distinguish wildlife management activities from hunting activities; provide for the possibility of hiring auxiliary personnel, adequately trained and with a hunting license; strengthen the self-protection of farmers on their land; provide for full compensation for the damage suffered by farmers; make the hunting chain traceable for public health and safety.
The President of Anci Adduce communicated the urgent convocation of the board to support the initiative and raise the level of mobilization of the Municipalities while the Prefect Vardè reported that he will transfer the proposals to the Ministers concerned - Agriculture and Environment - to solicit measures. The CIA-Agricoltori in stressing that the damages have assumed an unsustainable dimension also in terms of national security, stressed the need for the separation between the private / recreational interest found in hunting and the public interest, referable to the containment and management of loads, which can no longer be postponed. Equally strategic is the organization of a wild meat supply chain, as well as actions in the European context to overcome the traceability of the indemnities for damage suffered by wildlife to the state aid scheme (de minimis).
Hi, with my team we are available to try to reduce the number of wild boars, with € 100 per head plus expenses and half of wild boars killed, or an agreement to be established. (but only with the necessary permissions)