Savona. “The massacre of wild boars, puppies and adults, present in the inhabited areas and captured in cages, continues unabated: in recent days it happened in Spotorno, with two females and their seven puppies. In less than a year, more than a thousand animals have now been barbarically “executed” by the regional police at the request of the mayors. The municipalities of Sassello and Alassio started, then Albissole, Quiliano and Varazze, followed by Savona and another dozen municipalities in the hinterland and on the coast”.
The Savonese Animalist Observatory (OSA) continues to report the capture and killing of ungulates in the provincial territory.
“The multiple execution of Spotorno even created a protest from the hunters, which is saying something; but it particularly struck many animal rights activists, due to the intervention of Mayor Fiorini, at the head of an administration that stood out in the past for animal rights initiatives and was therefore even more incomprehensible due to the harsh words”.
In fact, the Savonese Animalist Observatory (OSA) continues unheeded to preach that “captures and killings are useless because, if garbage and urban cleanliness are not better managed, the wild boars will continue to arrive; especially with “door to door” collection and the use of easily overturnable containers for which, according to the association, a solution could be – where feasible – to hang them or keep them on shelves raised from the ground, or even fence them robustly” he further adds the association.
“But there is a bloodless solution. And it is disconcerting that there is not a single mayor who has the courage to demand from the region that wild boar hunters be forced, under penalty of exclusion from the hunting season, to intervene every time with dogs on a leash to push the packs into the woods”.
Finally, OSA notes that “the activity of the regional “game wardens” is to enforce hunting laws and prosecute poaching and not to set up “firing squads” and this could be in conflict with the legislation on health and safety in environments of work” he concludes.
