As disclosed by the Abruzzo region, the Department of Rural Development has given its authorization to the wild boar selection hunting throughout the territory until next June. This is the passage that follows the favorable opinion of ISPRA, who had pronounced positively on the abatements arranged by the Territorial Areas of Hunting.
The Regional Councilor for Agriculture, Dino Pepe, explained that this hunt has been active at full capacity right from the beginning of 2017: it is the killing of a certain number of heads by hunters qualified through training courses. This means that the hunting activity will last longer to solve the problem, as required in recent years, primarily by the agricultural world. The agents of the Provincial Police and the Carabinieri will also be involved.
Now the approval of the control plan is awaited: according to Pepe, the sampling will also take place in the hunting protection institutes, therefore in the Restocking and Capture Zones (ZRC) and in the Dog Training Zones (ZAC), given that wild boars have reproduced undisturbed since the ban on hunting was imposed. Meat will be adequately enhanced through the food chain, with the aim of transform a wild that is a real calamity into a resource.