To contain the wild boars you need data and programming. It supports it Dario Zocco, Director of Po and Orba Park. Last week Coldiretti Alessandria launched yet another alarm on the proliferation of ungulates, even asking for the forestry police and the army to intervene in the abatement plans. “The situation in the Alessandria area - argues Coldiretti - is unsustainable from all points of view and has reached saturation. It's a security issue but also health care as wild boars carry African swine fever and other infectious diseases for humans ”.
The association announces the presentation of a document to the territorial authorities and asks for the intervention of the mayors. Mauro Bianco and Roberto Rampazzo, president and director of Coldiretti Alessandria, recall that a meeting has already been requested from the prefect and the president of the Province: "It is necessary to go beyond the methods adopted up to now, considering that in over thirty years of complaints it has not been possible to achieve the expected results". According to the two managers, "extraordinary interventions are needed also through derogations that allow the use, given the state of emergency, the involvement of the police, such as the forest police and the army".
According to Zocco, however, “the lack of damage monitoring for a comparison over time it is a problem. In the areas of our competence, the abatement plans are implemented but concern smaller surfaces compared to the rest of the territory. Plus, the results of our plans they are affected by what happens outside. The fact - continues the manager - is that it breaks down relentlessly but the situation does not change, in my opinion because regional coordination is needed, as was once the case when the Wildlife Observatory of the Region was operational. It would indeed be very useful - concludes Zocco - collect scientific data on the quantity and location of the damage and on the number of specimens present in order to be able to intervene with targeted actions. However, the Observatory has been canceled "(Newspaper 7).