The La Maddalena National Park intends to launch, soon, a pilot project for the eradication of wild boars, bloodless, which, going beyond the use of rifles and capture with cages, provides for sterilization. The extraordinary commissioner, Rosanna Giudice, announced it yesterday, during a conference of the island's UTE. And it will start from the island of Spargi, which hit the regional and national news this summer, for the serious injury of a child by a wild boar hybrid.
As you may recall, a few weeks later the island was temporarily closed for a culling operation that, however, yielded very limited results. In the islands of Maddalena and Caprera, culling operations with rifles by selected controllers organized by the National Park have resumed in recent weeks, operations that have been going on for several years and that, at least on the two largest islands of the archipelago, are starting to yield the first results. "In recent times, around a thousand wild boars have been killed, between the islands of Caprera and Maddalena," the commissioner stated, "and in fact, in the city, you hardly see any anymore."
The problem, however, is the incredible proliferation of the ungulate, which is omnivorous, has no natural enemies and enjoys excellent health. Hence the difficulty in producing definitive results with operations with cages and culling. Sterilization could contribute decisively to eliminating the quadruped from a territory in which it has never lived (it was imprudently brought there by man a few years ago), and on which it produces negative effects on natural balances and biodiversity.