Wild boar hunting: Lazio, new regulation for ungulate control

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26 February 2015

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Wild boar hunting: Lazio, new regulation for ungulate control. New legislation approved authorizing the elimination of excess wildlife in order to prevent damage to agriculture. Compensation is foreseen for farmers and hunters they will be able to trade in culled animals.

Pd, Fi, Fdl and Ncd voted in favor, the M5S group against, while Sel did not participate in the vote. In Lazio, the possibility of eliminating excess animals, such as wild boars, which in some areas have now become a real emergency, is a regional law. This is the case in the northern area of Rome, along the Via Cassia, where the inhabitants of Olgiata now see wild boars enter the gardens and calmly cross the street. But it is in the agricultural areas that the damage is counted: 2.750.000 in the last year alone and hundreds of companies damaged. The most affected areas are those of Amatrice, Vallepietra and Bracciano and more generally the Rieti area, the areas north of the province of Rome as well as some areas of Viterbo, Ciociaria and the province of Latina.

The provision was born from a bipartisan initiative promoted by the majority directors Marco Vincenzi, Mario Ciarla and Riccardo Valentini and by opposition Giancarlo Righini, Mario Abbruzzese and Luca Gramazio. The aim of the text is not only to implement preventive measures and provide compensation for direct farmers and professional agricultural entrepreneurs, but also the protection and control of the wild fauna present in the regional territory on a permanent or temporary basis. Together with the conservation of habitats and a correct regulation of the wildlife-hunting activity. For this purpose, an organizational structure of the Regional Agriculture Directorate is set up, with the task of implementing and coordinating the system of interventions established by law.

This structure, by 30 April of each year, prepares and transmits to the council and to the competent council commission a report on the implementation of the system of interventions and on the results achieved in the previous year, highlighting any operational difficulties and criticalities relating to the individual. interventions. On the other hand, the Regional Wildlife Observatory disappears, whose tasks will pass to the newly created structure, which will be supported by the Scientific Committee for Wildlife, composed of the Director of the Arsial, an ornithology expert, an expert in wildlife management, an expert in agricultural techniques and appraisals, an expert in forestry and environmental management, an expert in hunting and environmental legislation and an expert in data collection, analysis, processing, management, dissemination and archiving. Guidelines and directives are envisaged for selective killing plans for "huntable ungulates", such as i boars, and the sale of the meat of the animals killed is foreseen.

The Region will promote the control of species which, due to excessive presence and density, damage forests, ecological systems, agriculture and hydrogeological assets. The law also financially supports preventive measures such as fences, disposable crops and dissuasive foraging. Help also for those who insure themselves. Damages to crops, livestock, irrigation systems, greenhouses, protection works of cultivated land and farms may be subject to compensation. Compensation is foreseen both for damage caused by wildlife and for those - on the proposal of Cristiana Avenali (For Lazio) - produced by hunting.

(February 26, 2015)

Source: AffariItaliani