It is known that, in order to adapt, mammals modify their behavior but, in this way, conflicts may arise, especially with humans.
The Animal Protection Association has been insisting on asking the Liguria Region to take care, as a public service agreement, of the wildlife emergency of the increasingly injured and sick wild animals but so far nothing had changed.
The local Animal Protection Association has a toll-free number one can call when wild animals show up in inhabited places or when one finds an injured animal.
Unfortunately, the Association faces many expenses and receives insufficient funds from the Liguria Region.
Particularly wild boars are becoming a big issue in the cities and towns because they are large and destructive animals and, faced with the increasingly unmanageable situation, citizens are moving to request immediate action.
Wild boars rage on the streets of cities and villages attracted by the trash that overflows from the bins, especially in urban areas and the situation is increasingly serious and unbearable also because they have ticks which may potentially be dangerous to humans and pets alike.
Day and night, these animals roam parks and the streets of the city in search of food. They know, in fact, that they will find litter abandoned in every corner and left to rot for days due to the slowdown of garbage collection.
Little has been done to avoid and solve this issue and the arrival of the pandemic for Covid-19, with the consequent lockdown, has increased the presence of wild boars in the streets going hand in hand with increasing abandoned waste.
But it’s not all bad. Every day, citizens report the presence of deer, foxes, many species of birds and an increasing number of butterflies and fireflies which once had almost disappeared from our region.
In some areas the speed limit was reduced to avoid road accidents due to the passage of animals to safeguards humans and animals at the same time.
Even the wolf, which had been gone for some years, has made its come back and now in Genoa an association of environmental guides even organizes excursions on the hills and trails to track down these animals.
It is known that the wolf is back, but it does not have an easy life in the mountains of our region and many forget or pretend to forget that it is a protected animal. Lately the Region has invested very little in studies concerning wolves but, according to the latest regional estimates, in Liguria there are at least seventy wolves, but the data are very variable, given the real nature of this animal.
After many years of absence, this fascinating animal has returned, regaining the areas left free by man. Despite having so many preys available, there are too few wolves and it is also for this reason that it is very difficult to identify it, as it must constantly move to eat.
It seems that from the Apennines range they reached the Ligurian Alps, headed towards the border, chasing wild boars, reintroduced in large quantities for hunting purposes.
Up to now, wolves have not attacked humans, but when their presence in the area was endemic there were several deadly attacks on both shepherds and people caught in the woods, to the point that, to bring them down, even the army was called.
Today the problem affects the whole Apennines and the Alps and makes many farmers furious because they think they have been left alone as they can't shoot this protected species and they don't know how to do it anymore to be compensated for cows, sheep and goats they lose to wolves.
Wild animals are not a rare sight now
