Safety and environmental protection
It is necessary to give new impetus to the control actions of the wild boar species in the Regional Park of the Rupestrian Churches and the Murgia Materana and in the other protected areas of the province of Matera. This is what the Councilor for the Environment, Land and Energy stated in a note Basilicata region Cosimo Latronico at the end of a meeting held at the Prefecture of Matera. The meeting was convened on issues regarding road safety and the protection of public and private safety due to the presence of wild boars in the provincial territory.
Estimates of the animals present
“For decades, wild boars have reproduced in our protected areas, which are numerous in our territory. In detail - adds Latronico - following the regional and national ordinances relating to the measures to contain African Swine Fever (ASF), the new governance of the organisation, a few months after its establishment, will have to implement concrete measures to achieve objective of culling the animals envisaged by the African swine fever eradication plan, recently approved by the Bardi council, which estimates as many as 5.000 animals present in the perimeter of the Murgia Materana park and 9.600 in the ATCs of the province of Matera.
The 2023 withdrawals
In particular, - continues Latronico - as a result of the monitoring activities conducted by the Parks office of the General Directorate of the Environment, Land and Energy, a total of 2023 heads of the wild boar species were collected in 1.945 in the Lucanian protected areas (150 specimens in restriction zone 1 and 1795 in the free area) through the various techniques of turning, selecontrol from fixed ambush and capture through cages; however these actions are not sufficient. Basilicata has extraordinary conditions – continues Latronico – for which we must implement extraordinary solutions. We have been working for some time with the Parks office to try to give impetus to the control actions of the wild boar species within the framework of the new national and regional regulatory framework. Much work has been done and much more work will be done shortly, in synergy with the new governance of the Murgia Materana park, with the National Commissioner for African swine fever and with the General Directorates of Agricultural, Food and Forestry Policies and Health and Community Policies Person." (source: Baslicata Region).