The thesis, albeit scientific, will certainly anger hunters. Andrew Mazzatenta, professor of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Teramo, argues that the proliferation of wild boars is caused by hunters. According to the teacher, the increase in damage to agriculture and road accidents are a consequence of hunting pressure. Ungulates, frightened and stressed by hunting trips, they have more puppies. Furthermore, “the hunters themselves have created the problem, introducing the Hungarian wild boar in Italy, a larger and more prolific species, for their own interests”.
Thesis adopted by the group leader of the 5 Stars in the Municipal Council of Acqui Terme, Mauro Ghione, and under discussion in the assembly of the spa town tomorrow evening, February 9, but applicable everywhere and already adopted in parks and protected areas, where containment takes place on a scientific basis, with greater success than outside. In Carrega Ligure, for example, the municipal administration opted for the creation of the Alta Val Borbera Park also because the containment plans implemented by the ATC did not work: it is better to activate the methods put into practice in the protected areas "The control actions - says the document presented by the city councilor - are ineffective and are bringing farmers also because the staff of the provinces in charge of controls is small in number ”.
In the first half of 2019 in the province of Alessandria there were 150, as many as the whole of 2018. In addition, in 2020 the numbers of wild boars have grown due to the lockdown and the consequent stop to the abatement plans. The document proposed by the 5 stars asks the Region to increase the number of hunting guards employed by the Provinces and employed in the control plans. It also proposes to implement on an experimental basis, only in regional protected areas, the ultrasound experimented in Tuscany with devices that emit sounds at variable frequencies, inaudible to humans. A non-bloody method to remove wild boars from cultivated fields that should not lead to the proliferation of animals (Giornale7.it).