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Spain plans wild boar cull amid swine fever outbreak that hit exports
Catalonia targets wild boar population after African swine fever detected, with 7 deaths confirmed; Spain’s pork exports worth €3.5 billion face risks, officials said.
- On Dec 2, Catalan regional leader Salvador Illa pledged to ramp up wild boar culls after African swine fever, saying `We have activated and intensified this task, contacting all hunting associations.`
- Last week, the outbreak was first detected in two wild boars in the Collserola mountain range outside Barcelona, with seven more boars confirmed dead, and officials suspect a truck driver brought contaminated food.
- There are about 1,000 wild boar in the Collserola mountain range with density reductions achieved in part through past culls, and the virus is harmless to humans though no farms are affected so far.
- Spain's pork industry faces threats to about €3.5 billion in annual exports, while the Spanish government works to secure export certificates as China and Britain accept pork from unaffected regions.
- Spanish officials said they expect more positive cases as Salvador Illa and regional authorities have intensified measures and contacted hunting associations to reduce wild boar numbers.
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The traps, cages and short weapons with silencer are ready to be used as soon as the European Union and the Ministry of Agriculture authorize the Generalitat to start capturing and slaughtering boars.Continue reading...
·Granada, Spain
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The population of wild boars has increased in Spain by more than a million in just three decades: of the 200,000 recorded in 1990 it has reached 1.3 million in 2024. This increase of 550% has resulted in an overpopulation of these mammals, responsible for the outbreak of swine fever in Barcelona that has put the entire Spanish sector in check, according to the Coordinator of Farmers' and Livestock Organizations (COAG). "This is not an accident, …
·Madrid, Spain
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