UNGULATES: NEW RAID IN POMARANCE, BOARS OUT OF CONTROL
27 wild boars in one fell swoop devastate the cornfield in Pomarance. Damage Escalation: On the rise for the past two months. Meeting in Volterra with the Municipal Councilor for Agriculture and Hunting. Coldiretti asks for a reopening of the hunt to contain the number of wild boars. Aniello Ascolese, Provincial Director of Coldiretti: "Phenomenon out of control: prolong the hunt to restore balance". Use all the tools that the regional hunting law provides to reduce damage to agricultural crops. The farmers of Coldiretti asked the Municipal Councilor for agriculture of Volterra, Roberto Costa and hunting, Simone Lonsi during the important meeting held in Volterra between the representatives of the hunting and agricultural world.
Despite the numerous reports and protests by farmers, the damage to crops continues to be too much, and the number of ungulates, especially wild boars, is out of control. Also complicit in public reserves - the Berignone Park and the Monterufoli Park - and the management of interest of private reserves, in particular agritourism - the wild boar population has returned to grow, bringing with it trails of devastation. The latest cases, confirming that the phenomenon is no longer controllable, Wednesday in the Pomarance area: a group of 27 wild boars razed a wheat field to the ground. The municipalities most affected: Pomarance and Volterra. According to Coldiretti (info on www.pisa.coldiretti.it) the Province must activate "the measures provided for by regional law, including the extension of the hunting period, to contain the number of wild boars".
In fact, only the culls guarantee the rebalancing between the territory and the wildlife heritage: "Today - analyzes Aniello Ascolese, Provincial Director Coldiretti - this balance is no longer there but the Tuscany Region, through the hunting law, allows the Province to activate extraordinary measures for limit the damage and reduce, if necessary, the number of ungulates, in this case wild boars ".
Coldiretti has registered, particularly in the last two months, a real escalation: “The farmer does not want compensation. He wants not to take damage. The work of weeks, months, is thwarted by the wild boars that raze entire crops to the ground. The situation has become unsustainable ”.
The other problem concerns the parks, which act as reserves for ungulates where to hide, and the agri-tourist hunting companies: “The controls - still analyzes Coldiretti - by the Territorial Hunting Area and the Province of Pisa are superficial. If the wild boars do not find food, they are forced, in order to live, to go and look for it elsewhere, and they do this systematically, leaving the reserves, whether public or private. On the contrary, as the opening period of the hunt approaches, in the reserves, as if by magic, the abundance of food returns and even the wild boars return ”.
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