“It is shameful to read in large letters 'wild boar emergency', in the most well-known Abruzzo newspapers, an emergency that shows no sign of ending, looks a lot like theCovid-19 health emergency. A total failure of the regional councils that have followed one another since that Peace where there was the commissioner Sciarretta, one of the best ever for Abruzzo agriculture. Everyone, farmer hunters, we thought that with a right-wing junta things would take a different turn, instead we have to regret my namesake Dino Pepe “. This was stated in a note by Dino Rossi, spokesman forAssociation for Rural Culture (Acr). "Already from the approval of the Abruzzo wildlife plan it was understood that the then new councilor Emanuele Imprudente was not on the side of the farmers, much less of the hunters.
A totally illegal wildlife plan, approved by unanimous votes despite not respecting law 157/92 which provides that protected areas can occupy a maximum of 30% of the territory, instead we have reached 70% excluding urban areas". "This is the real problem of too many wild boars, deer, roe deer and wolves, the latter are also massacring livestock farms, in addition to the damage to the cultures damaged by ungulates", reports Rossi. "Practically wild animals are fed by the few remaining farms. We are still waiting for the official answers on the percentage of the surface of the protected areas, since the last demonstration in front of the Hemicycle ”.
“Some time ago - remembers Dino Rossi - we formally asked the councilor to recover, notwithstanding how the Molise, the hunting days lost due to the weather conditions, but we were left unheard. I'll give you an example: with ten days of hunting in pursuit of 10 team leaders multiplied by 100 teams, there would have been 1.000 fewer heads throughout Abruzzo ”. “Another problem”, Rossi continues, “is that on a national level, the law was amended in 2003 and it was preferred to sponsor the selection hunt, instead of the one with dogs called hunted, much more incisive, supported by reports from professors of great professorships, but ignorant of what is happening in the area, like our councilor ".
“I seem to witness the Vajont disaster, when the observations of the local farmers were ignored, taking the reports of the technicians for granted. We all know the result! ”. "A region, that of Abruzzo, now it has become a den of animals without identity, where no one does anything, but the companies pay the expenses that strangely no one pays back by following the de minimis, but on the other hand reserves and natural oases are born in defiance of law 157/92, financed with everyone's money ". "It is hoped that the councilor's policy will begin to change", concludes Dino Rossi, "otherwise we will get in motion to make a petition to ask for the resignation of those who do not listen to the voices of those who live in the area".