Promote policies and solutions to implement new and more incisive management models throughout the national territory wildlife. This is the appeal of Cia-Farmers Italians to the new minister Roberto Cingolani, just installed in the department of the Environment and Ecological Transition in the executive headed by Mario Draghi. The choice of a scientist with such a high profile and his prestigious scientific curriculum, are a good omen for a finally pragmatic approach to the contrast policies of one of the great unresolved issues of Italian agriculture.
A problem that requires immediate intervention by the Institutions, aimed at containing the indiscriminate proliferation of ungulates on the national territory, which went from a population of 900 heads in 2010 to almost 2 million, today. CIA has been working on the issue for some time and is ready to collaborate with the new minister to arrive at new wildlife management tools as soon as possible, making available its proposal for the revision of law 157/1992, insufficient to regulate a phenomenon now out of control.
The damage - emphasizes Cia - is always greater for farms that have come to exasperation, but the risks for the safety of citizens are also constantly increasing, not only in rural areas. It is, in fact, always higher the frequency of accidents caused by wild boar and wild animals, estimated by the Traffic Police at over 10.000 a year. To all this is added the risk of swine fever, which in Asia has already compromised a third of Chinese pork production, creating tensions on prices with negative effects for all our livestock farms, which would risk collapse in the unfortunate hypothesis of outbreaks also in Italy.