“The packs of wild boars – underlines Coldiretti – are moving ever closer to homes and schools, up to parks, destroying crops, attacking animals, besieging stables, causing road accidents with deaths and injuries and scratching around in waste with obvious risks for health. The situation has become unsustainable in the city and in the countryside with incalculable economic damage to agricultural production but – underlines Coldiretti – the environmental balance of vast territorial ecosystems in areas of naturalistic value is also compromised with the loss of both animal and vegetable.
This is – highlights the regional Coldiretti – only the tip of the iceberg because many do not report, discouraged by the bureaucratic delays and the conditions imposed by the insurance companies such as, for example, in addition to the traces on the car and on the asphalt, also the discovery of the animal carcass with which we encountered.
In this scenario, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has also launched an appeal to the states of the European Union asking for extraordinary measures to prevent wild boars from accessing food and reduce the number of animals to limit the risk of spreading the disease. African swine fever (PSA) which affects animals but not humans. The majority of citizens – concludes Coldiretti Puglia – consider the excessive presence of wild animals a real national emergency which affects the safety of people as well as the economy and work, especially in the most disadvantaged areas”.
