Joint regional hearing
The wild boar emergency reaches the tables of the Apulian regional council. He was also there on Thursday 21 March in Bari Cia-Italian Farmers of Puglia, represented by the deputy regional vice-president Giannicola D'Amico and the director of the Due Mari area Vito Rubino, at the joint regional hearing between the II and IV commissions convened on the input of the Taranto regional councilors Antonio Paolo Scalera, Massimiliano Di Cuia and Renato Perrini, in following the latest road accidents which occurred in the Ionian province. At the institutional table, coordinated by the two commission presidents Enzo Di Gregorio and Francesco Paolicelli, all the main actors called to deal with the emergency were seated: the Region, with its political and managerial part, the territorial hunting areas of the various Apulian provinces , hunting, agricultural and animal rights associations.
A plan to be approved as soon as possible
Cia Puglia, which has been fighting for years to deal with the wild boar emergency in defense of the agri-food sector and road safety, through the words of its regional vice-president Giannicola D'Amico highlighted the need to push the accelerator of the regional plan of 'selective culling. Furthermore, he underlined the urgent need to reform the hunting law number 157 of 1992: a 32 year old law which, at the instigation of the Puglia Region, could be brought to the attention of the Government and then be revised and adapted to the present day . “We need to introduce a monitoring system and a census of wild boars throughout the territory and promote the wild boar meat supply chain” added D'Amico, giving credit to the work carried out so far by the regional agriculture department but at the same time encouraging to action, that of the Environment, as far as it is concerned.
Citizens and crops
“The emergency - added Cia Puglia - forces us to move from words to deeds and bureaucracy must give way to concrete actions. The health and safety of citizens and the future of the agricultural sector must be protected without putting any environmental issues or animal rights objections first. We are now witnessing a strange phenomenon which in our opinion should make us reflect: an excess of protection towards the animal species and the underestimation of the dangers towards humans and agriculture that the proliferation of certain species is causing. We believe it is serious that an ideological approach is placed before the protection of human life and the safeguarding of crops, production and jobs and is contrary a priori to any method to stop the uncontrolled proliferation of wild boars." The meeting, reported presidents Di Gregorio and Paolicelli, will be reconvened shortly, also allowing the leaders of the regional healthcare sector to participate in the large discussion table" (source: CIA Puglia).
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