Hunting al Cinghiale: Basilicata, councilor Luca Braia informs that the Council has approved the changes to the 2015-16 Regional Hunting Calendar suitable for allowing wild boar hunting even on Saturdays in order to limit the damage caused by this species to local agriculture.
Wild boar hunting in Basilicata. The Regional Council has approved an amendment to the Hunting Calendar Regional for the 2015-2016 hunting season, regarding the practice of hunting for wild boar species.
"The change - announced the Councilor for Agricultural and Forestry Policies, Luca Braia - always in compliance with national and regional legislation, allows the practice of boar hunting on Saturday for the month of November, also leaving the ATC to allow the hunting of wild boar on Saturday also for the month of December.
After allocating € 150.000 to the two provinces for the reimbursement of farmers who have suffered damage from wildlife, we have also started the activities of selective control and selective culling in the four parks of the region. The investigation for the construction of new manhole covers for the capture of wild boars in the parks is also still in progress.
Therefore, a further possibility is added - underlines the commissioner Luca Braia - to decisively stem the question of the overpopulation of wild boars and consequently the problems caused to farmers. With a broader objective which is to go towards the creation of the Basilicata wild boar meat processing chain. "
The councilor Leonardo Rocco Tauro, of the Brothers of Italy Regional Coordination - AN, expressed himself on the question, and thus replied to Braia's statements, "We take note of the words of the regional councilor for agriculture, Luca Braia, regarding hunting with wild boar even on Saturdays. But this is definitely not enough. We need to do more and with maximum speed ”.
It is necessary - explained Tauro - that action be taken with the national government to review the hunting laws, to allow wild boar hunting to take place throughout the year and not only in a specific period, among other things in a manner very limited compared to the serious emergency. In Lucania, but we can say throughout the country, the presence of these ungulates, as harmful as it is destructive, cannot be reduced to a few months a year ”.
“The whole territory - continued the councilor - is affected by their presence, not only the four regional parks and therefore arrangements for their capture must be prepared throughout the Region. It is in the way, and we have repeatedly denounced it, the safety of citizens in the first place and then damage to crops and artifacts (not a day goes by that the news does not report serious events).
Finally Tauro concluded, "If we want the 150.000 euros granted by the Basilicata Region to our two provinces to compensate the damage suffered by citizens and agricultural entrepreneurs, do not grow exponentially, there is only one way: to drastically reduce the presence of these animals by all means available. Finally, as regards the possibility of using wild boar meat to create the so-called supply chain, I have strong doubts about the very goodness of this food ".
(November 2, 2015)
Basilicata region