Wild boars killed in Perugia, vegans: here are the solutions without hunting. The news of the action of the regional task force and the teams of wild boar hunters called to solve the problem of the presence of numerous wild boars in the area of Cholestrada and Ponte San Giovanni has revived the theme of the selection of wild animals. Especially wild boars, which have become numerous and increasingly close to inhabited areas, where they find food more easily rummaging through the rubbish. The Region, especially to limit the damage to farmers and the risks of road accidents, has announced its intention to solve the problem by pushing on the selection activities of the ATC and allowing farmer hunters to be able to shoot more smoothly to wild boars on their land. But the animal rights activists are not there. And they believe there are other ways to keep wild boars and other wild animals away from homes and roads without killing them.
“Wild animals - explains Alice Delicati, responsible for Umbria at Avi (Associazione Vegani Italiani) - have self-regulation mechanisms, in natural conditions; human interventions, such as those related to hunting, cause imbalances. It was found that the fertility of wild boars is considerably higher when hunting is intense and is reached earlier, less than one year of age. Thus boars reach sexual maturity with a lower average weight. Wild boars have a very sensitive social structure. A dominant wild boar, who goes into inspiration once a year, leads the group.
The so-called estrus synchronism causes the other females in the group to be fertile at the same time. Furthermore it restrains the young and thus prevents greater damage to crops. If the dominant female is killed, the group disperses, the unguided animals break into the fields, all the females become fertile several times a year and reproduce in an uncontrolled way ”. "Of the explosive replication of wild boars - continues Alice Delicati - the hunters themselves are therefore responsible. We constantly read news about wild boars. Aggressions, road accidents, damage to agriculture. We are talking about wild boars, animals that attack men (rarely) and not about men who kill billions of animals every year. If the wild boar is not provoked or injured, it does not attack humans.
But, continually attacked or forced to flee from dogs, he has acquired such an aversion towards these animals as to attack all those who come within range ”. "But if man has always hunted wild boars enough to extinguish the native Maremma one - writes the manager Avi again - we ask: how is it that after 30 years of hunting calendar, selection hunting, hunting in derogation, hunting of all kinds, do wild boars proliferate? Wild animals have self-regulation mechanisms according to the law of 'carrying capacity' linked to available space and food. Human interventions, such as those related to hunting, cause imbalances. Killing animals does not solve the 'problem'. Those that remain become more prolific, or are more likely to reach adulthood, so that the same starting number is reached in a short time. No more farms, no more restocking, no more foraging ”.
The focus is on farms: “The wild boar is produced in intensive, semi-intensive farming and extensive mainly for hunting repopulations and for food purposes. Living conditions in an enclosure are often aberrant due to artificial nutrition, overpopulation, abnormal social structure and obstacle to nomadism. They create a disturbed animal ”. The Avi then challenges the restocking policies: "The hunters ask for them and the institutions are always ready and willing to satisfy them; wild boars spread. There is an exemplary bill in Parliament presented in 2009 by senators Donatella Poretti and Marco Perduca: 'In art. 21 of the law 11 February 1992, n. 157, the following paragraph is added: 4. It is always forbidden for anyone to release wild boar of any subspecies or breed into freedom on the national territory, either for restocking or for any other purpose.
For the violation of the prohibition referred to in this paragraph, the administrative sanction is applied from € 500 to € 1500 for each piece". And then there is the issue of wild boar foraging, also raised by farmers: "It breaks the biological equilibrium - explains Alice Delicati - making wild boars less subject to natural selection operated by the rigors of winter even if the mortality rate of porchetti is rather high and in the first eight months of life it can reach 30-40%. Sterilization of wild boars to protect farmers and inhabited centers. For a long time, farmers and their associations have complained about the exponential increase in the number of ungulates and particularly wild boars which damage crops. Even the system of specific hunts, the so-called hunted, did not solve the problem, indeed even during the jokes some people died. The wild boars are pushed further and further out of the woods and also arrive in the city "(Tuttoggi.info).
At first, imagining the dominant wild boar, holding the hungry wild boars at the edge of a cornfield and preventing the young pigs from mating, literally made me die with laughter. Then, thinking of Mrs. Delicati running in the woods with a syringe in her hand in order to sterilize the numerous and ferocious boars, on the other hand, I was very worried. I was also amazed that the hunters managed to extinguish the native wild boar by shooting, while, with the imported species, the opposite effect is had. At this point I became more and more convinced that nature must take its course and the only solution is really the closure of the hunt, if anything accompanied by the reintroduction in the mountains of snow leopards and, in the plains, of Bengal tigers.
Great Gianluca. In addition to the many laughs x the environmental-scientific nonsense of Mrs. Delicati, I add those x your pleasantly ironic comment. And I take the liberty of encouraging Mrs. Delicati, urging her and her animal rights team to proceed with their project. With the facts xò. Not only with chatter as they are used to doing. Chat only to give him free and unmotivated to the hunting world. Good sterilization. At the end of the work we will toast together.