“The ungulate situation is now completely out of control, hunting with the ungulates must be immediately reopened wild boar hunts and selection hunting, otherwise the Sienese agriculture dies ". Valentino Berni, president of Cia Siena. In the province of Siena - the note reports - there are on average culls for 20-30 thousand head per year, with normal proliferation and without culling, in 2021 we will have over 100 wild boars in the Sienese countryside. “An emergency, therefore, - Berni specifies - which we have been highlighting for many years, but which in recent months has reached a level of no return.
The complete closure (and hunting ban) of the Tuscan territory with the Red Zone was the coup de grace, in practice the boar hunting season has not even begun this year. Next year we will have triple the number of ungulates and there is no going back. Many autumn-winter sowing they are regularly destroyed by the raids of these animals ”. For days and weeks daily reports from farmers throughout the province of Siena. And also in the Berni winery (in the municipality of Montalcino) in recent days the passage of about fifty wild boars that have crossed the vineyards: “An unlikely scene - Berni continues -, we have gotten used to the presence of the wild boar for years now, but seeing such an enormous number of animals with my own eyes had never happened in the past.
Personally, and in our provincial offices of the CIA, we receive reports of this type every day, from all over the province, with constantly increasing damage, we are moving towards the total disintegration of our agriculture ”. What does it mean? "It means that in this hunting season not even a cartridge was fired against wild boars - explains the president of Cia Siena -, while it is precisely in these autumn months that a minimum of containment is carried out of the heads of ungulates.
An example: if a boar hunting team could catch 400 heads, this year those same animals will continue to roam around our crops, then they will proliferate and next year there will be 1.000-1.200 wild boars. It can therefore be understood that this situation is no longer manageable by the authorities in charge and all damages will be borne by the farmers. As always. The official figures on the number of ungulates are always down, what remains before our eyes is the real damage to crops, land and structures. Action must be taken immediately with the killing. We can no longer go on like this ”.