A new complaint
It is necessary to accelerate the identification and construction of the management districts and the sectors of withdrawal by the ATC. Raid in the fields in the province of Foggia with wild boars that devour and destroy whole crops, aggravating the crisis scenario of farms squeezed between crop collapses due to drought and expensive energy with the exponential increase in production costs. It is yet another complaint from Coldiretti Puglia, after the raids of wild boars in the broccoli fields between Rignano Garganico and San Marco In Lamis, for which it is urgent that the ATC identify and build the management districts and the sampling sectors, after the resolution of the Council of the Puglia Region which approved the regulations for the management of the "Selection Hunting" for wild boars, deer and bovids in Puglia, strongly supported by Coldiretti who contributed to writing the guidelines, which allows them to take part in the operations to reduce the number of wild animals even to farmers with hunting card, to authorized hunters, voluntary hunting and environmental guards, security guards, as long as they are specially trained.
A problem of no small importance
“This is an unsustainable situation that is causing the abandonment of the inland areas by the population, with social, economic and environmental problems. Farmers but also motorists, road hauliers and occasional patrons are reporting with increasing frequency - complaint Peter Piccioni, confederal delegate of Coldiretti Foggia - the damage caused by wild boars that live and reproduce mainly in protected natural areas but which inevitably cross over into farms, on the neighboring roads and in the vicinity of inhabited centers. In the province of Foggia they have doubled within ten years, putting at risk not only agri-food production and the hydrogeological structure of the territory, but also the lives of farmers and motorists ".
Wild boars in Puglia
The escalation of damage to the countryside, assaults and accidents that unfortunately also cause victims is the result of uncontrolled proliferation of wild boars In Puglia that have reached 250 thousand, so it is necessary to intervene immediately and with determination against the invasion of wild boars with continuous sightings in the areas of the Alta Murgia Park, of the Gargano, in the Murgia Barese and Tarantina, in the Dauno Subappennino, near the Forest of Mercadante, up to the urban centers. After the numerous Coldiretti events also in Puglia - explains Coldiretti regional - it has been noted that the increase in wild boars and the reduction of the staff responsible for controlling them has increased the risk of damage to agricultural crops but also to the safety of citizens, given the increase in road accidents caused by wild animals . Hence the decision to proceed a an epochal change of pace with respect to the orientation followed in the last fifteen years, always expanding in agreement with the ATCs the exhaustive list of subjects in charge of selection hunting.
Endless destruction
Wild boars destroy agricultural crops, cause road accidents but to worry - remember the regional Coldiretti - are also health risks caused by the spread of diseases such as swine fever. The situation in the rural areas of the Bari Murgia and in Capitanata is particularly serious and unmanageable, especially in the Gargano area where the habitat is particularly favorable. The unbridled proliferation of wild boars - adds the regional Coldiretti - is compromising the environmental balance of vast territorial ecosystems even in areas of high naturalistic value. Wild boars reach 180 centimeters in length, they can graze the two quintals of weight and have fangs that in some cases reach up to 30 centimeters resulting in the assimilation of real weapons with deadly consequences for men and animals as well as becoming instruments of devastation on cultivated and harvested fields. Over 6 out of 10 Italians (62%) - according to the survey Coldiretti / Ixè - they are afraid of wild boars and almost half (48%) would not even take home in an area infested with these animals. A situation that has reached the limit, so much so that more than 8 out of 10 Italians (81%) - according to the Coldiretti / Ixè survey - think that the wild boar emergency should be tackled with the use of slaughtering by hiring specialized personnel to reduce the number.