“Door to door didn’t work”
The extraordinary commissioner forSwine fever emergencyAngelo Ferrari, has signed a ‘order than introducing new rules to limit the spread of the virus among pigs. The goal, put at the first point in the meeting at the prefectural table, is avoiding that cases leave the great ring road from Rome. And in the hours the green light from the institutions selective killing of wild boars could become a reality: the regional authorities and the Undersecretary of Health Andrea Costa are in fact pushing firmly on this path.
The issue intervenesInternational organization for the protection of animals (Oipa) that speaks of “Demonization” of wild boars to “increase its constituency also made up of farmers, breeders, hunters”. And he points the finger at the incorrect disposal of waste in some areas of Rome. In Ostia Antica, Axa, Casal Palocco, Infernetto, adjacent to the presidential estate of Castelporziano where a substantial population of wild boars lives, they do not have the problems that are manifesting themselves in Northern Rome. “The reason is simple – writes Oipa -: it has been for some time waste disposal in the Municipality of Rome 10 it works with the “door to door”.
The Oipa, announcing the possibility of challenging the ordinance, underlines how the policy of abatements is irrational and just a hasty solution e unethical. And quoting theIsprastates that it is important that any type of hunting activity in the area infected with African swine fever is “activities that involve a double risk: the handling of wild boars infected targets on the territory, mainly resulting from the use of techniques that use dogs, and the involuntary spread of the virus through footwear, clothing, equipment and vehicles “.