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More and more frequently, the media bring us the same diatribe about vicious wolves exterminating livestock.
There are people who even confuse harmless chamois for ravenous wolves (Trentino Alto Adige), and due to the lack of verification, the story ends up in Ticino online to the hilarity and dismay of readers.
Never mind the headlines reporting on the “soul-killing predator.”
There is a provocative question to be asked: is one trying to garner acceptance from that segment of the population that will soon have to go to the polls?
Of course, it is easy to pick on wolves, or large predators in general: they annoy!
They compel honest mountain farmers to spend (albeit with government subsidies) not only money but also time so that their livestock are at best protected from the raids of wolf packs that are likely to roam everywhere, say even on our city limits.
It is therefore not at all trivial to ask by what right in the last three centuries, so let us go back to the 1700s, the great predators had been exterminated. Were our ancestors so much frightened by the atavistic beliefs of wolves preying on children?

It is a fact that man, over the centuries, has changed the balance of wild species in quantity and variety. On the one hand hunting, which nowadays is considered a sport, agriculture and food gathering then land reclamation activities and colonization, have dramatically affected the pre-alpine/alpine fauna. Several species such as ibex, bear, wolf, ring vulture, chamois, marmot and lynx were almost entirely exterminated until the early 20th century, only to be reintroduced through nature protection measures.

In recent years, not only because of climate change, more and more species are once again on the verge of extinction.
In 2018 by federal vote, the Swiss people approved the law protecting several endangered animal species. Much has been said about it, with heated debates especially from those who would like our territory to be free of large predators.
But they, especially the doomed wolves, lynx and bears, know no geopolitical borders and can freely enter and leave the confederate borders.
Those who voted for us to continue to protect nature and with them those who were here millennia before us, however, also understand the grievances of those who face situations that are not always easy to approach.
I am referring to the “protection of flocks and livestock,” with the relevant owners having to commit themselves with advance and good will to make greater efforts to protect their beasts, which, however, are sometimes victims of neglect, or found at the bottom of ravines…
Groups of willing citizens have also given their willingness to help, free of charge, the farmers and ranchers in these tasks in these protection activities.
But these positive things are not publicized, some prefer to increase the damage by publicizing misleading news for example of chamois disguised as ravenous wolves or citizens who publish photographs of German or Czechoslovakian shepherd dogs crying “wolf, wolf.” Or again, there are individuals who incite to harness a rifle and practice poaching to get rid of unwanted animals.
These far from ennobling behaviors do nothing but inflict a greater penalty on common sense and increase the already grim discord that is taking place. Not to mention that these are actions punishable by law.

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