It is back to talk about boars and on Friday 20 September the Councilor for Agriculture of the Lombardy Region Fabio Rolfi has raised the problem, already launched by ours Federcaccia Bergamo on the need to ensure that wildlife operators can act without problems to keep a problem under control that is putting a strain on farmers. The Lombard regional councilor wrote a letter to the minister Gian Marco Centinaio to highlight the problem related to the presence of wild boars in Lombardy. Federcaccia Bergamo, through the words of its President Lorenzo Bertacchi, immediately said his complimenting the Councilor for the interest in the matter.
"We share the Councilor's initiative: For months Federcaccia has clearly supported the need to modify 157/92, made even more anachronistic by the rulings of the Constitutional Court that have put a damper on the attempts of the Regions to safeguard agriculture and habitat from the uncontrolled proliferation of wild boars. The agricultural world continues to ask for the intervention of hunters outside the hunting season, but in the face of uncertainty about the legitimacy of the control interventions not even the hunters qualified with specific courses for wildlife control in accordance with the Regional Law they can operate: we have also invested the Public Prosecutor's Office and the Prefect of Bergamo with the matter in order to guarantee wildlife operators to act without risk in carrying out what is in effect a service for the community. To date, however, no response has been received.
We join Councilor Rolfi in the appeal to Minister Centinaio: the reform requested by Lombardy is as necessary as it cannot be postponed ”. “The situation is out of control, due to anachronistic laws. I re-launch the appeal made to the Lombard parliamentarians and ask for an intervention from the minister as well so that there is a joint political action to change the law 157 expressly providing for the figure of the hunter as a voluntary operator ”said Rolfi. "A more effective containment of wild boar also represents a form of further prevention against African swine fever, given the cases recorded in Belgium". “The lack of recognition of the hunter as a voluntary operator has generated a conflict between regional and national laws making this figure borderline, with interventions also by the prosecutors.
We ask that the action of hunters be made safe to protect the territory from wildlife. The hunters perform in this role a free service to the community, given that the containment of the few provincial police officers left is insufficient. In fact, in most of our region the extra hunting activity is stuck and the consequences are there for all to see, with alarms launched by the mayors of all the camps and all the provinces ”added Rolfi. "The containment activity carried out by hunters is necessary to protect the safety of agricultural crops and also of people, given the damage generated by wild boars. An intervention by the national legislator is necessary and cannot be postponed ”concludes the commissioner.