The costs associated with the abatement of boars will be borne by the Calabria Region, and no more of the selectors, at least until the end of September. The agreement stipulated between the Agriculture Department and the territorial hunting areas provides for this. The initiative, taken on the initiative of the Department of Agriculture, led by Gianluca Gallo, is necessary to guarantee a further tool in the daily action of containment of a phenomenon that is increasingly assuming the connotations of a question of public, as well as a health emergency. In particular, in light of what has now been established, for the months of August and September, the Region - on an extraordinary and temporary basis - will replace the selectors in the payment of the amount due to the Asp for the health inspection activity linked to each slaughtered head.
"In order to offer concrete answers to a problem that is every day more serious and devastating, both for crops and for public safety - explains the commissioner Gallo - we have decided not to leave no stone unturned: after having raised the maximum threshold of huntable wild boars, and having brought it from 300 to a thousand, through specific training courses, the number of active selectors on the regional territory, let's take another measure that will allow, if nothing else, to mitigate the phenomenon, especially around inhabited centers ». «We are well aware - adds Gallo - that the question is to be found adequate and definitive solution, needs radical interventions.
In this regard, for months, together with the other Italian Regions, we have been carrying out an arduous confrontation with the Government, to reach a redefinition of the rules currently in force. The diversity of views between the Ministry of Agriculture, on the one hand, and that of the Environment, on the other, has hitherto held back every step forward. We trust in quick and adequate responses, without which it will be impossible to ensure the adoption of remedies that have now become, as well as urgent, not postponable "(Source: Calabria Region).