The wild boar emergency affects Italy e also Abruzzo, where herds often find refuge in protected areas. A herd of wild boars of over 30 specimens is filmed and filmed as he advances with his nose on the ground, rooting, rummaging among the leaves, looking for acorns in the fields and near the oaks at the foot of Colle San Cosimo, on the border between the municipalities of Prezza and Pratola Peligna, in the Aquila area. There are at least 6 young of the species that always remain close to the herd. Some of the specimens are huge, as big as a car, and when they stare at them they inspire fear. The area in which they were discovered is located on the edge of the provincial road 118, where it is necessary to always pay maximum attention and moderate the speed to avoid nasty surprises, like animals in the wild, of different sizes, crossing the roadway.
On the problem of wild boar overpopulation some studies show that selective hunting and similar methods, adopted by some bodies in concert with the territorial hunting areas (ATC) do not help to resolve the issue, on the contrary they make it worse. "We need to make a serious intervention plan on wild boars," he said Philomena Ricci, regional delegate of WWF Abruzzo.
“For the hunted hunting even Ispra (Higher Institute for Environmental Protection and Research) said that it is not a hunting method that serves to limit neither the damage nor the number of wild boars ”, adds the delegate of the environmental association. "Then they do the selection hunt… Is there an overall plan? Is there an assessment of the state and structure of the population? They practically hunt wild boar all year round, but populations are not contained or at least there are no studies that prove it, something is not working "(LaPresse).