Increasing damage to agriculture, road accidents and the specter of swine fever looming. Years of complaints, two large demonstrations with tractors under the Region to ask for incisive measures, yet the farmers of Coldiretti Marche I’m still on the barricades branding it “failure of the regional hunting policy and the AT management systemc”. Coldiretti Marche calls for a state of emergency on ungulates.
“Let’s ask – explain by the regional Federation of direct farmers – cthat immediate action is taken in the revision of the law and sector regulations, implementing the new national regulations which provide for an extraordinary annual control activity with cages and culling throughout the regional territory, including parks and protected areas and without any impediment from part of Ispra”. The reference is to article 19 ter inserted with the 2022 Budget Law, amending law 157/2022 which regulates the extraordinary plan for the management and containment of wild fauna.
“For all this time – they add from Coldiretti – we continued to think as if selection were another type of hunting activity and not as an environmental rebalancing action. Now we need an urgent activation of the provisions of national legislation to try to remedy a situation to which neither the ATC nor the Region has been able to pay due attention in the last 20 years. It is no longer tolerable that the relevant bodies continue to procrastinate in dealing with this emergency”.
In addition to the millions in compensation for farmers, the wildlife emergency (which also includes other animal species such as deer, fallow deer and roe deer) also represents a danger for citizens. According to Asaps data, in the last year there have been 11 road accidents with serious injuries on the roads of our region. Not to mention swine fever. In recent months, Coldiretti Marche has requested and obtained funding to defend the approximately 4,600 pig farms in the region. So far no outbreak has been found in the Marche but the virus carried by wild boars, harmless to humans but lethal to pigs, is a sword of Damocles on animal husbandry and, in general, on the economy of inland areas. Suffice it to say that where health measures have been activated to combat the spread of the virus, in addition to the culling of animals, areas have also been closed off, as well as a ban on picking mushrooms and truffles, fishing activities and even trekking and mountain biking and all other activities that could lead to direct or indirect interaction with infected wild boars.
