Wild boars in Italy: In one month, 50 thousand farmers have taken to the streets to ask for containment plans

With the latest demonstration in Sicily, fifty thousand farmers have taken to the streets in the Italian regions with three thousand tractors to say stop to the wild boars and ask for extraordinary containment plans to stop an invasion that devastates crops and puts the lives of farmers at risk. citizens, in urban centers as well as in internal areas. It is the balance of the great mobilization that has touched the entire national territory drawn up by Coldiretti on the occasion of the demonstration in Palermo in front of the headquarters of the Sicilian Region which, after last week's demonstrations in Mestre and Naples, ideally closes a month of initiatives with the aim of containing the invasion of uncontrolled wildlife. On the island, the siege of wild boars has aggravated an already dramatic situation due to the drought. The presence of wild animals represents an unacceptable "tax" which costs agriculture around 200 million euros per year in direct and indirect damage. ...