GAVI. Drones to locate wild boar carcasses from above and teams of volunteers to find them in ditches, banks, slopes. It is the Zampe Libera group that launches the mobilization on the Facebook page “Sei di Gavi se …” through Ugo De Cresi, who is looking for volunteers willing to work hard to collect data on the epidemic that frightens the entire hilly and mountainous belt on the border between Piedmont and Liguria. “Our group has a marked and close relationship with the territory of the Psa-infected area and we have created a section of ‘Carcass Search’, divided into two: aerial and terrestrial”.
For the terrestrial research the intention is to limit oneself to covering asphalted roads, without leaving there, to inspect the visible land with the use of binoculars. On the air front, however, the group is ready to use drones: for those of 250 grams that do not require flight permits with take-off always from asphalted roads, while for the larger ones the aim is to ask for “the granting of an exception to the ordinance ministerial to cover a greater portion of the field grid by getting closer, even physically, to slopes and reliefs from which to take off ». But this is only one of the reactions to the emergency that could give a serious blow to the environment but also to the economy of the area, which has one of the backbones in hiking, trekking and oudoor sports. On the Alexandrian front, for now, the restaurateurs of the Val Borbera and the producers of fillet kissed in Ponzone have shown concern, but from the Ligurian side there is a protest at various levels against the ordinance that prohibits going to the woods for the next six months . The Beigua park has already called it “a warm panel”, asking for important compensation and exceptions to outdoor tourism, while Fiaib and Federparchi have called for prescriptions instead of total closures. The group «No to the lockdown of the Ligurian woods!» Was born on Facebook, with the proposal to invade the mailboxes of the Liguria Region with e-mails and it is not certain that reactions of this type will soon rise also in the Alessandria area. The Pact with Citizens also moves, with Luca Dainese: “The ordinance that for six months reduces outdoor activities and limits the freedom of people for no real reason, kills the economy and there is no refreshment that can heal “.