The popular and followed radio broadcast "La radio speaks about it" of the national channel 1 in the episode of this morning, 11 September, was dedicated to the theme of wild boars, comparing the hunting, agricultural and protected areas world with the national president of the Italian Federation of Gian Luca Dall'Olio hunting, the national president of the CIA Dino Scanavino and the president of Federparchi Giampiero Sammuri.
The increase in wild boars and other invasive and opportunistic species and the damage they have caused to agriculture - said Scanavino - are now a dramatic problem for the agricultural world, to which the work, which he defined as meritorious, of hunters alone is able to cope. Hence his provocative statement a few days ago to employ the army. But it is the regulatory framework that must be revised, according to the CIA president, since we are faced with a national law developed with a view to the protection of fauna and not its management. An approach that must change in order to face and solve current problems.
The president of Federcaccia Dall'Olio agrees on a necessary and not postponable regulatory adaptation, who stressed that the management of the territory must be carried out in its entirety, including protected areas, where once all the other methods of containment and prevention have been exhausted, it can exclude the intervention of trained and prepared hunters. There is no talk of hunting as commonly understood, but of targeted containment actions through the removal of defined species, causing the least possible disturbance to the remaining unaffected species.
After all, the methods to contain a species like wild boar - recalled the president Federparchi Sammuri - exist and are extremely simple. The park of the Tuscan archipelago removes 1200 wild boars a year from its territory. Unfortunately, the same methods are not applied in all protected areas - as recalled recently in a parliamentary question by the Hon. Ermete Realacci - which would allow a significant decrease in population density. The problem - underlined Sammuri - is not technical but socio-political.
In short, from the interventions of the guests it clearly emerges that a new land management model is necessary to adequately address the wildlife issue to reduce damage to agricultural crops, the risks to the safety of citizens and effectively protect the fauna itself.
The hunters are ready to do their part and to put themselves at the service of society and institutions. To these create the conditions so that they can do it in the best possible way and without useless and sterile ideological polemics, but with the technical-scientific principles applied throughout Europe.
In the next few days it will be possible to listen to the broadcast in podcast on the Rai Radio 1 website.