After wild boars, wolves, Asian velutine wasps and blue crabs from overseas, another species that does not belong to our ecosystem threatens the survival of farms and also the health of citizens by being able to transmit diseases such as salmonellosis and avian influenza. There are already over a thousand free-ranging monk parakeets flying above our heads raiding the countryside for almond trees, fruit, wheat, sunflowers, corn and everything they come across. An invasive avifauna species, native to the highlands of Africa and Asia, whose population is destined to grow rapidly in a short time. Its introduction has been prohibited in Europe since 2007. The alarm comes from the countryside of the Florentine plain, in particular from Montelupo Fiorentino, Vinci and the neighboring municipalities where the bright green parrots are causing increasingly heavy crop losses. This is reported by Coldiretti Florence who once again asks the Tuscany Region for extraordinary interventions to contain the wild fauna which devastates crops, destroys the ecosystem, impoverishes biodiversity and represents a danger to public safety and health. A request that the main agricultural organization will once again invoke in the streets with a forthcoming protest to defend the income of farmers and citizens. In Florence the first families of monk parakeets settled in the Cascine area where they nested and reproduced and then colonized the surrounding environments. Their number is also growing rapidly at the Boboli Gardens and the Stables at Porta Romana where children compete to see who can see the most. They are like grasshoppers. In a few minutes, from a few specimens they become dozens: they are a scourge. They eat everything they find. Boars, roe deer, parrots, wood pigeons, crows are driving us to exasperation. And every year it gets worse and worse. Without interventions, agriculture is destined to disappear even in the plains” states the truly concerned Florentine agricultural entrepreneur Mauro Baglioni,
