The Regions ask the Government to intervene on the wild boar emergency

The

urgently ask for an

regarding the

: "We are asking in particular for a two-month extension of the hunting season and tools for the containment of wild boars".

This was stated by

, councilor for agriculture of the Veneto region, coordinator of the Agricultural Policy Commission of the

, on the sidelines of a press conference on the wild boar emergency.

"We are strongly

and worried because the situation in the area is truly tragic not only as regards the agricultural damage that wild boars are doing in the area but also for a safety issue due to the African swine fever which is mixed not only in the area. livestock sector but also at the level of human health without mentioning the attacks on humans, "said Caner.

"

- he continued - indeed I thank the undersecretary Vannia Gava of the ministry of ecology who has allowed us to make an important change that has been stopped for two months.

I don't know if due to misunderstandings or lack of political will between ministries, but today is the first time that 21 councilors meet together to hold a press conference to ask the government for urgent and non-postponable interventions on the boar issue ".

"We are thinking of a territorial surveillance because unfortunately with the modification of the Delrio law the competences have passed to the regions which, however, do not have the tools and personnel to carry out the containment. I remember in some parts of the country discussing the eradication of the wild boar because in certain parts it is a non-native species - he added - We cannot then understand this environmental movement that is completely blocking the possibility of managing this species that is doing too much damage ".

"There

with an

and that

", said Caner.

"We understood from the

that there were no impediments in his ministry. A part of Parliament, especially the 5 stars, do not want to allow this provision to pass through and put their ministers in difficulty", he concluded.

COLDIRETTI: SITUATION OUT OF CONTROL.

LOST 800 THOUSAND HECTARES OF FARMABLE LAND ' 

"

. We are asking for interventions because we have welcomed the 200 thousand hectares that the commission has allowed us to cultivate. But we have lost more than 800 thousand hectares, because the presence of wild boars devastates the harvest and the farmers abandon. it is a double effect: the economic damage to agricultural enterprises in a delicate moment like this "and" an environmental damage because where there is the abandonment of agricultural land we have a territory that does not hold. It is necessary to give a concrete answer on the containment of wild boar becomes an effective response to an environmental issue ".

said so

, president of Coldiretti, Conference of the Regions, during the press point on the wild boar emergency.

"Today we need a national standard - he added -. We need a clear direction for the containment of wild boars", he stressed, recalling that

 "and only those registered".

BRANCO OF WILD BOARS IN THE STREETS OF PALERMO

Meanwhile, in

as in Rome, news emerges of a herd of wild boars among piles of garbage in Borgo Nuovo, a district on the southern outskirts of the city near the municipal landfill of Bellolampo.

This was reported by the municipal councilor of the Lega Igor Gelarda who took a video posted on Facebook by a resident where you can see a family of wild boars, mothers and 7 puppies, rooting in the garbage after crossing the street on the pedestrian crossing.

"The absurd repopulation done with these animals, and the state of neglect in which the city has now been for over 10 years - writes Gelarda -, has led to this: garbage and wild boars. If we continued like this, in a while maybe even bears and wolves. Of course now is the time for this new municipal administration to intervene. And immediately to avoid these spectacles. "