The chosen date
To defend the countryside besieged by wild boars and protect the lives of citizens who are increasingly put at risk on the roads, the Coldiretti takes the field in all regions with a series of mobilizations to demand certain and immediate answers. It starts on June 18th from Lombardy, in Milan, and from Calabria, in Cosenza, where thousands of farmers will take to the streets in front of the Regions to ask for a change of pace on the policies relating to the containment plans for ungulates, which have so far proven ineffective . But there are many appointments that in about 1 month will touch all the capitals of the country and which already in the month of June will also pass through Sardinia and Abruzzo before arriving in Puglia, Marche and gradually all the other regions.
An invasion to be contained
The objective of the mobilizations is to immediately apply at a regional level the measures envisaged by the inter-ministerial decree launched last year for the adoption of an extraordinary plan for the management and containment of wild fauna. The Regions' plans must include the active involvement of the owners and managers of the estates with licenses for hunting and the establishment of a body of volunteer Guards, at provincial level, to fill the shortage of local police personnel with the possibility to act also in protected areas. An invasion that puts the countryside and the city at risk. It is essential to contain as soon as possible an invasion that has become a real national emergency with 2,3 million specimens free to move without obstacles on Italian territory, with a devastating impact on food production. The most critical situations – notes Coldiretti – are found in Calabria, Lazio, Puglia and Tuscany, but the problem now affects all regions.
Massive damage
An alarm that concerns the countryside and the city, farmers but also citizens who want to contain a danger for the fields and the streets, as demonstrated by the latest deadly collision that occurred in Rome after 2023 which recorded 170 road accidents with deaths and injuries, according to Coldiretti analysis on Asaps data, up 8% compared to the previous year. Damage to the fields for 200 million. Wild boars that have caused around two hundred million euros worth of damage to Italian agriculture in the last year, devastating fields of wheat, barley, corn, vegetables and even vineyards. The damage caused by wild animals is only minimally reimbursed and often after many years, a situation that has led many to give up reporting the attacks they have suffered. Among other things, the few compensations that arrive never cover the real value of the destroyed product or the killed animal. To give an example, a producer of fine wine who has had his vineyard devastated by wild boars will only be compensated for the simple value of the grapes. Added to the damage to crops was the alarm of the African swine fever, the disease not transmissible to humans which the wild boars present in the national territory today risk spreading in the countryside, endangering the pig farms in the area and, with them, a sector which between production and related industries is worth around 20 billion euros and employs one hundred thousand people (source: Coldiretti).
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